Esa-Pekka SALONEN

• Karawane

• Intermission

• RAVEL

  Daphnis and Chloé (complete)

Artists

• Los Angeles Philharmonic

• Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

• Los Angeles Master Chorale

• Grant Gershon, Artistic Director

• Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director

About this Performance

Maurice Ravel’s “choreographic symphony” Daphnis and Chloé challenges conventional music status quos while highlighting his genius as an orchestrator. The epic dreamscape consists of the most number of musicians for any of Ravel’s works, yet allows for soloists to shine brightest here. Born out of the Sound Poetry and synthetic language of Hugo Ball’s Dadaism, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s cyclical Karawane is a monumental study of the familiar and unfamiliar. Here, the words are the music and the music is the words, brought to haunting life by the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

This performance is generously supported by the Contemporary Initiatives Fund.