LA Phil LIVE is back for a second season. Three specially selected performances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Gustavo Dudamel will once again come LIVE in HD to movie theaters nationwide. The second season launches on Sunday, October 9 2011 with an all-Mendelssohn program featuring Dutch violin virtuoso Janine Jansen who will play Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto. The program also features the composer’s Hebrides Overture and his Symphony No. 3, “Scottish.” Other performances are on October 6, 7 and 8.
Then on February 18, 2012, LA Phil Live broadcasts from Caracas, Venezuela where Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, combined with multiple choirs and soloists in Mahler’s magnificent “Symphony of a Thousand”. Details of a third performance to be broadcast in the Spring of 2012 will be announced later in the season.
LA Phil LIVE is an immersive sight and sound experience, which allows in-theater audiences am up-close experience up-close of Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in action, captured with multiple HD cameras and in thrilling 5.1 surround sound. Each broadcast transports audiences behind the music for an exclusive “backstage pass” look at the LA Phil consisting of interviews with Dudamel, world-renowned guest soloists, and the orchestra’s musicians.
The first LA Phil Live Season in 2010 included the Opening Night performance of works by John Adams and Leonard Bernstein hosted by actress Vanessa Williams; “Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare,” a semi-staged performance of works by Tchaikovsky based on Shakespeare’s plays “Macbeth”, “Romeo and Juliette” and “The Tempest”; and a performance from the spectacular series “Brahms Unbound.”
