Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Presents “Kahane Plays Kahane”

Saturday, March 11, 2023, 8 pm, Royce Hall

Sunday, March 12, 2023, 7 pm, Alex Theatre

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Orchestral series continues with “Kahane Plays Kahane,” a program in which family legacy runs deep. LACOConductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane, “a smart and sensitive musician, a celebrated pianist, and a precise and demanding presence on the podium” (Orange County Register) returns to the stage with LACO to perform the West Coast debut of his son Gabriel Kahane’s Heirloom Piano Concerto, a LACO co-commission that Gabriel calls “an aural family scrapbook” that he composed for his father. Christopher Rountree conducts the work. In a review of its world premiere in Kansas City, KC Studio Magazine describes the work as “an homage to the intergenerational connections and musical influences that shape Kahane’s life: his parents’ love of folk music, his grandmother’s relationship with Germanic classical music, having escaped Germany in 1938, and his own daughter’s energy and innocence.” The magazine declares Heirloom a “successful fusion of different musical styles and backgrounds, a captivating, contemporary work that sounded suited to our current century, the sort of work that both captures the sounds of today and pushes forward the evolution of orchestral music. Jeffrey Kahane then takes the podium to conduct Haydn’s final symphony, Symphony No. 204 in D Major, "London.” The program also includes selections from Rameau’s operas Zias, Les Boreades, and Dardanus.

Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Alex Theatre, 216 North Brand Boulevard, Glendale, CA 91203

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor/piano

PROGRAM:

GABRIEL KAHANE: Heirloom Piano Concerto(LACO co-commission, West Coast Premiere)
HAYDN:Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London”

RAMEAU: selections for the operas Zias, Les Boreades, and Dardanus

TICKETS/INFORMATION:
www.laco.org

213 221 3920