Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 2024/25 Orchestral Series launches with TRAILBLAZERS: MARTÍN + BRAHMS + BAUER, featuring Music Director Jaime Martín conducting Brahms’ sunny yet wistful Symphony No. 2 in D major on Saturday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m., at Glendale’s Alex Theatre, and Sunday, Oct. 20, 4 p.m., at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Additionally, LACO presents the program on Monday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m., at Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre, appearing courtesy of the Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara on its prestigious International Series to open the organization’s 106th concert season.
Guest artist Thomas Bauer, a baritone who sings with “sheer virile force” and “emotional intensity” (Opernglas), is spotlighted on Mahler’s deeply personal song cycle Songs of a Wayfarer, a masterpiece arranged for chamber orchestra by Schoenberg.
Martín begins the program with Haydn’s sixth symphony, “Morning,” the first in a triptych of early Haydn symphonies portraying the times of day.
LOCATIONS:
Saturday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m.
Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale 91203
$40-$164
Sunday, Oct. 20, 4 p.m.
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills 90210
$40-$164
Monday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. †
Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street, Santa Barbara 93101
$41-$123
PROGRAM:
J. HAYDN Symphony No. 6 in D major, “Le matin”
G. MAHLER, arr. Schoenberg Songs of a Wayfarer
J. BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D major
TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION:
www.laco.org
(213) 221-3920
Email: boxoffice@laco.org
Photo credit: LA Chamber Orchestra rehearsal at The Ambassador in Pasadena on Jan. 29, 2022. (Brian Feinzimer for LA Chamber Orchestra)