Gustavo Dudamel returns to lead the last two weeks of the L.A. Phil season in premieres by Ellen Reid and Gabriella Smith along with Beethoven's Seventh.
that he had accepted a five-year contract to become music director of the New York Philharmonic beginning with the 2026-27 season. Even though he had three more seasons with the L.A. Phil, his relationship with the orchestra and the city had taken on an unexpected new meaning.
For one thing, both Reid’s “West Coast Sky Eternal” for string orchestra and Smith’s “Lost Coast,” a cello concerto, are dazzling works devoted to the here and now, the pull of nature and time on the West Coast in an era of environmental crisis. For those who haven’t yet taken the 40-minute video walkthrough Disney Hall , you will encounter a work by Reid commissioned for members of the L.A. Phil.
Throughout its 25 minutes, “Lost Coast” contains a wealth of wild sounds, nature attempting to go aboutbusiness as usual, however much we keep changing the climate. The score could be nature singing — the buzzing of insects, the roar of leonine brass . Every player, at some point, becomes a percussionist, no matter the instrument.
Dudamel has his own history with the symphony. Five months after his star-is-born U.S. debut with the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl, he recorded the Seventh with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. It was Dudamel’s first major commercial recording. He had just turned 25, and his huge orchestra of players his age and younger come on like their own boisterous force of nature. The performance is loud, fast and furious. The feeling of optimism is overwhelming.
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