The international ensemble, which comes together in L.A. every year, has a dedicated audience and a solid grip on the repertoire it plays.
Festival performances of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges and John Adams’s Violin Concerto are spectacular.
Guest conductor Earl Lee leads a substantial program of Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber, and Carlos Simon.
The festival premieres excerpts from Karim Al-Zand’s opera in progress, inspired by the true history of these tales.