Brooklyn Festival

Alan Pierson conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group in Tyondai Braxton’s “Central Market” in the April 16 Green Umbrella series program that was part of the Brooklyn Festival.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Michael Marcotte, tenor, and Lauren Worsham, soprano, perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group in Matt Marks’ mini-opera “Strip Mall.” The Philharmonic co-commissioned the piece and presented its world premiere.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Composer-musician Samuel Adams acknowledges the audience after the performance of his blues-inspired composition “Tension Studies” in the April 16 Green Umbrella program that was part of the Brooklyn Festival. He is the son of composer John Adams.   (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

On April 18, the Los Angeles Philharmonic launched three performances of a Brooklyn Festival program anchored by Aaron Copland’s 1924 Organ Symphony. Joshua Weilerstein conducted. The program also featured new and recent work by Brooklyn composers Ted Hearne, Christopher Cerrone and Hannah Lash.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Organist Cameron Carpenter joins conductor Joshua Weilerstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Aaron Copeland’s youthful, statement-making Organ Symphony.   (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Guest conductor Joshua Weilerstein unleashes a big gesture during the April 18 performance.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Joshua Weilerstein conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Conductor Joshua Weilerstein applauds composer Hannah Lash as she takes the stage after the performance of her 2011 composition “Hush” on the April 18 Brooklyn Festival program.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Composer Ted Hearne, right, gestures to conductor Joshua Weilerstein after the April 18 world premiere of Hearne’s “Stem,” co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)