Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” (13th Symphony) on the “Evening Concert”
Also on the program, music of Prokofiev and George Walker.
Also on the program, music of Prokofiev and George Walker.
Also on the program, music by Beethoven and Janacek.
Music Director Gustavo Dudamel conducts. Also on the program, Janacek’s “Sinfonietta” and Stravinsky’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments”
Dvorak was inspired to write his "Violin Concerto" after meeting Joseph Joachim. There's no clear historical record indicating why Joachim never performed it.
Tonight's LA Philharmonic is a program of "Program" music, which is music without words, often with a descriptive rather than generic title, meant to evoke the feeling, the place, the situation, in sound.