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2020 Hollywood Bowl summer season is officially cancelled
The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that this summer’s Hollywood Bowl season is now officially cancelled. In an email sent to donors, LA Phil CEO Chad Smith noted that “for the first time in its...
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Comings and goings at the LA Phil (Summer 2020 edition): retirements in the...
Life can seem frozen during this strangest, most turbulent of years. There’s a desire to rewind and redo the past, or to fast-forward to a post-pandemic future that hopefully looks and feels like the...
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Hollywood Bowl to re-open in May 2021; Dudamel/LA Phil, Thundercat & Flying...
In the latest sign that the beginning of the end of the pandemic is in sight, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announced today that the Hollywood Bowl will once again host audiences for live...
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The lost (and found?) All is Yar interviews of 2020: an open letter and prologue
Dear Reader (including those of you who’d normally only come here for orchestra audition repertoire lists, the rare operatic April Fools’ joke, or military music freebies, and especially anyone who...
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A 2020 chat with Norman Pearson: the tuba player talks about his career &...
Norman Pearson played his first concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1982 as a substitute on 2nd tuba. Simon Rattle conducted The Rite of Spring. Not a bad start. He’d go on to spend most of...
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LA Phil releases full details of 2021 Hollywood Bowl summer season
The other shoe has dropped. The Los Angeles Philharmonic sent an email to subscribers this morning inviting them to go to their website to view details of the 2021 summer season at the Hollywood Bowl....
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REVIEW: LA Phil livestreams opening concert of 2021 Hollywood Bowl Season
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic launched its 2021 Hollywood Bowl season last night with a free concert for frontline and essential workers, their first performance for a live audience...
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LA Phil extends contracts of Herbie Hancock and Thomas Wilkins
Two important artistic leaders at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association will be around for a few more years. Herbie Hancock and Thomas Wilkins both signed contract extensions with the organization....
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The LA Phil returns with a Hollywood Bowl season-opening night to savor
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic returned to the Hollywood Bowl this past Thursday, their first subscription concert since pandemic restrictions had been instituted and subsequently...
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Tuesdays in July at the Bowl (part 1 of 2): Alison Balsom and Musgrave...
The July 20th concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl offered something for every kind of classical music fan. If you’re an aficionado of brass, it would’ve made you very happy....
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A chat with Tom Hooten: LA Phil’s Principal Trumpet talks about the world...
Tom Hooten, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s distinguished Principal Trumpet, was thrilled to learn that the orchestra had commissioned a new work featuring him as soloist. His excitement grew when he...
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A chat with Whitney Crockett: the LA Phil’s Principal Bassoon talks about his...
The Rite of Spring can be frightening for some bassoonists, but Whitney Crockett doesn’t really get scared by it. At least not anymore. The famously high opening solo of Stravinsky’s ballet is...
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Comings and goings at the LA Phil (Spring 2022 edition, part 1 of 2): five...
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has been busy trying to plug multiple holes in its roster throughout this season. The COVID-19 pandemic had prevented it from trying to hire anyone for over a year. That...
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Comings and goings at the LA Phil (Spring 2022 edition, part 2 of 2):...
The last time we talked in detail about the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s attempts to find a new Principal Oboe was three years ago. The previous person in the job, Ramon Ortega, managed to begin and end...
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Inside info about LA Phil auditions from Nathan Cole, First Associate...
On the heels of all the talk about various auditions in Part 1 and Part 2 of the Spring 2022 edition of “Comings and Goings at the LA Phil” published earlier this week, I thought All is Yar readers...
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Marc Lachat will be the next LA Phil Principal Oboe
I hate to say that I told you so, but I told you so. Reliable sources — from multiple time zones, FWIW — have confirmed that Marc Lachat has been offered the position of Principal Oboe of the Los...
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New Hollywood String Quartet, Anne Akiko Meyers, LA Phil principals, and...
The New Hollywood String Quartet and The Da Camera Society have announced the “Summer of Beethoven Chamber Music Festival.” Four concerts of 11 works will be performed in Los Angeles at the Pompeian...
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RIP Bramwell Tovey, former LA Phil Principal Guest Conductor at the Hollywood...
Bramwell Tovey conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2010 (courtesy of the artist’s website) Conductor Bramwell Tovey has passed away. He had been Music Director of the...
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LA Phil adds a timpanist/percussionist
The Los Angeles Philharmonic held open auditions earlier this week for a new “Assistant Principal Timpani / Section Percussion” player. Yesterday, Joseph Pereira (Principal Timpani) and Matthew Howard...
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French connection: Paris Opera Ballet alights with grace upon the Hollywood...
World-class ballet is a transient in Los Angeles. All other genres of Western classical performing arts — orchestral, chamber music, operatic, even choral — have seen resident ensembles flourish since...
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