Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Presents Shankar Plays Shankar

Saturday, May 20 2023, 8 pm, Alex Theatre, 216 North Brand Boulevard,  Glendale, CA 91203

Sunday, May 21, 2023, 7 pm, Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Family figures prominently in Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s season finale when sitarist Anoushka Shankar makes her LACO debut, under Music Director Jaime Martín’s baton, with a performance of Concerto No. 3 for Sitar composed by her legendary father, the late Ravi Shankar, who brought the sitar into the mainstream through his pop music collaborations with The Beatles and others. Anoushka, heralded for her “lush mediations…dazzling runs and leaps,” has forged a “Grammy-nominated career (that) has carried the family business to new cross-cultural heights” (New York Classical Review). LACO also presents a world premiere by 2022-23 Sound Investment composer Marc Lowenstein, the founding music director of The Industry, Los Angeles’ groundbreaking and widely acclaimed experimental opera company, whose music is infused with a searching sense of narrative and mysticism. De Falla’s colorful The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No.1 opens the program, which

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

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

Jaime Martín, conductor

Anoushka Shankar, sitar

PROGRAM:
DE FALLA The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No.1

Ravi SHANKAR Concerto No. 3 for Sitar
MARC LOWENSTEIN title TBA (LACO Sound Investment Commission, World Premiere)

BIZET Symphony No. 1 in C Major

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