Creative Chair John Adams returns for the second installment of the LA Phil Etudes. The project invites a wide range of leading composers to create new solo etudes, each performed by an LA Phil musician, which showcases their distinct voices and the possibility of their chosen instrument. The theme of soloist spotlight continues with Donnacha Dennehy’s threshold-pushing piano concerto Limina and Missy Mazzoli’s bass concerto, Dark with Excessive Bright, which borrows its name from Milton’s Paradise Lost and slips between centuries with Mazzoli’s blend of new ideas and influences. Plus, Adams leads a world premiere by Noah Jenkins, whose music explores everything from drones to audio phenomena.
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Program Items
Gabriella Smith
Quantum Ptarmigan
Francisco Coll
Partita 1
Noah Jenkins
Not a dream sound, but a sound which sleeping we had really heard
Missy Mazzoli
Dark with Excessive Bright
Dylan Mattingly
a study of some of the terrible ways I love to play the cello
Samy Moussa
Jocelyn Morlock in memoriam world premiere
Donnacha Dennehy
Limina
Performers
John Adams
conductor
Eliza McCarthy
piano
Christopher Hanulik
bass
Ben Ullery
viola
David Rejano Cantero
trombone
Robert deMaine
cello
Marion Arthur Kuszyk
oboe
LA Phil New Music Group