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91.5 KUSC to Broadcast 40th Anniversary Season of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Performances

October 14, 2009

Recorded Live at Royce Hall and Other Los Angeles Venues

(Los Angeles, CA) – Commencing this fall, Classical KUSC 91.5 FM broadcasts ten performances of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 40th season, recorded live last year at various Los Angeles-area venues, including Royce Hall, UCLA. Hosted and produced by Alan Chapman, the popular broadcast concerts are paired with commentary by music director Jeffrey Kahane and other LACO musicians and guest artists. The first installment airs on Sunday, October 18th at 4 pm, followed by a new broadcast every Sunday through December 20. In its third year running, the successful partnership with KUSC and LACO also extends to American Public Media’s SymphonyCast, which plans a broadcast of the Yo-Yo Ma Plays Golijov program for national distribution.

“LACO’s 40th season was an important milestone for the Orchestra and presented us with the opportunity to honor the organization’s roots and recognize an incredible 40-year journey, witnessed through the music and artists that have defined it,” commented Andrea Laguni, LACO’s executive director. “These broadcasts offer Los Angeles and national music lovers the chance to be a part of our history and hear these extraordinary concerts.”

KUSC program director Gail Eichenthal said, “Our treasured partnership with our great friends at LACO goes back to 1980. We are thrilled to be able to present another entire season of great performances by one of America’s most dazzling chamber orchestras.”

The broadcasts begin on Sunday, October 18th at 4 pm (PT) with LACO’s 40th season opening Gala. The evening honors the Orchestra’s first music director, Sir Neville Marriner, as the special guest conductor, with present music director, Jeffrey Kahane, on piano and the Orchestra performing Schumann’s Overture, Scherzo, Childhood Dreams and Finale, Op. 52; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite and Kodály’s Dances of Galánta.

Highlights of the series include the complete Brandenburg Concertos performed by LACO soloists, a long-time tradition for the Orchestra, and guest performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Cho-Liang Lin and Makoto Nakura, among others. The Orchestra also welcomes new artists, including pianists playing with LACO for the first time, Ingrid Fliter, David Fung and Jonathan Biss. LACO performs four world premieres, two United States premieres and the west coast premiere of Golijov’s Azul.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra broadcasts on Classical KUSC 91.5 FM are supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and by James & Ann Mulally. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra also thanks Edith H. L. & J. Thomas Van Huss, June & Simon Li, and Nahum & Alice Lainer for underwriting national airplay of Yo-Yo Ma Plays Golijov on SymphonyCast.

BROADCAST SCHEDULE:

OCTOBER 18 marriner gala
4:00 PM

Recorded: September 27, 2008 at Ambassador Auditorium
Artists: Sir Neville Marriner, conductor; Jeffrey Kahane, piano

SCHUMANN/PAUL CHIHARA Overture, Scherzo, Childhood Dreams and Finale, Op. 52
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta

OCTOBER 25 celebration
4:00 PM

Recorded: October 5, 2008 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artists: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor; Richard Todd, horn

MARTIN Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments, Percussion and Strings
MOZART Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major
RICHARD TODD ceLebrACiOn (LACO commission – world premiere)
MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major

NOVEMBER 1 brandenburg
4:00 PM

Recorded: November 2, 2008 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artist: Margaret Batjer, leader & violin

BACH Brandenburg Concertos
No. 1 in F major, No. 3 in G major,
No. 5 in D major, No. 6 in B-flat major
No. 4 in G major, No. 2 in F major

NOVEMBER 8 marimba
4:00 PM

Recorded: December 14, 2008 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artists: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor; Makoto Nakura, marimba

R STRAUSS Serenade for Winds
PIERRE JALBERT Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra (US premiere)
HAYDN Symphony No. 31 in D major, “Hornsignal”

NOVEMBER 15 yo-yo ma plays golijov
4:00 PM

Recorded: January 11, 2009 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artists: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Michael Ward-Bergeman, hyper-accordion; Jamey Haddad, percussion; Keita Ogawa, percussion
FAURÉ Elegy
OSVALDO GOLIJOV Azul (west coast premiere)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major

NOVEMBER 22 Highlights of Westside Connections, LACO’s chamber music series
4:00 PM

Recorded: February 12, March 5 and April 23, 2009 at The Broad Stage

NOVEMBER 29 romance
4:00 PM

Recorded: January 25, 2009 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artists: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor; Ingrid Fliter, piano

DAMIAN MONTANO Rhapsody and Scherzo (LACO commission – world premiere)
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3 in A minor, “Scottish”

DECEMBER 6 tango
4:00 PM

Recorded: February 22, 2009 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artists: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor; David Shostac flute; Cho-Liang Lin, violin

BIZET/BORNE/DAVID SHOSTAC Carmen Fantasy (world premiere)
LALO SCHIFRIN Tangos Concertantes (LACO co-commission – US premiere)
HAYDN Symphony No. 92 in G major, “Oxford”

DECEMBER 13 firsts
4:00 PM

Recorded: April 19, 2009 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artists: Joana Carneiro, conductor; David Fung, piano

MOZART Symphony No. 31 in D major, “Paris”
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major
SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1 in C major

DECEMBER 20 fire
4:00 PM

Recorded: May 17, 2009 at Royce Hall, UCLA
Artists: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor; Jonathan Biss, piano

CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS Radiant Mind (world premiere)
Commissioned by LACO’s Sound Investment
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor
DE FALL “Ritual Fire Dance” from El amor brujo
GINASTERA Variaciones concertantes

CONTACT
Elizabeth Hinckley. 310 854 8199. ehinckley@rogersandcowan.com

Nicolette Atkins. 213 622 7001. nicoletteatkins@laco.org

Brenda Barnes. 213 225 7400