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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by music director Jaime Martín, caps the season with a LACO-commissioned world premiere by Marc Lowenstein and LACO debut of sitarist Anoushka Shankar performing Concerto No. 3 for sitar composed by her legendary father, the late Ravi Shankar.
Family and tradition figure prominently in Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s season finale when sitarist Anoushka Shankar makes her LACO debut, under Music Director Jaime Martín’s baton, with a performance of Concerto No. 3 for Sitar composed by her legendary father, the late Ravi Shankar, who brought the sitar into the mainstream through his pop music collaborations with The Beatles and others. Anoushka, heralded for her “lush mediations…dazzling runs and leaps,” has forged a “Grammy-nominated career (that) has carried the family business to new cross-cultural heights” (New York Classical Review).
The Orchestra also performs the world premiere of HaZ’màn HaZèh (translation: “this present time”) by 2022-23 LACO Sound Investment composer Marc Lowenstein, the founding music director of The Industry, Los Angeles’ groundbreaking and widely acclaimed experimental opera company, whose music is infused with a searching sense of narrative and mysticism. LACO Sound Investment is a groundbreaking program the Orchestra established in 2001 that engages audience members in developing new classical works. De Falla’s colorful The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No.1, opens the program, which wraps with Bizet’s Symphony No. 1 in C major, written when the composer was just 17-years-old.
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