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68TH PHILHARMONIC SEASON SET

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Times Music Writer

In his second year as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Andre Previn will conduct 11 of the 24 weeks in the orchestra’s 1986-87 season of subscription concerts, it was announced Monday.

Previn will preside over the orchestra in stints from mid-November through the end of the season in April--in his first season (1985-86), he was in residence for only six weeks at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion--as well as in additional performances at UCLA in March, 1987.

Among guest conductors, Kurt Sanderling will open the season Oct. 16, 17 and 19 with a concert featuring violinist Isaac Stern; Pierre Boulez will appear with the orchestra in two weeks of concerts March 6-14, and principal guest conductor Simon Rattle will return to Los Angeles after his sabbatical year to conduct two different programs April 9-19.

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Other guest conductors on the roster are David Atherton, Claus Peter Flor, Sir Charles Groves, Daniel Lewis and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Among the scheduled soloists are pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Radu Lupu and Emanuel Ax; violinists Itzhak Perlman and Anne-Sophie Mutter, and singers Kathleen Battle and Hildegard Behrens.

This will be the Philharmonic’s 22nd season in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center and its 68th season overall.

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Highlights of the announced season:

--Previn’s conducting of the first West Coast staging of his music-theater piece, “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour,” written in collaboration with playwright Tom Stoppard, to be staged by Gordon Davidson, artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum, Dec. 18-21.

--A program in which soprano Hildegard Behrens, making her Philharmonic debut, will sing excerpts from Berg’s “Wozzeck” and the final scene from “Salome,” Nov. 20, 21, 23.

--Previn’s first collaboration with the L.A. Master Chorale, under its new music director, John Currie: performances of Prokofiev’s cantata, “Alexander Nevsky,” Nov. 3-6.

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--A revival of Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy,” to be conducted by Salonen, Jan. 29-Feb. 4, 1987.

--The return of Pierre Boulez, conducting works by Bartok, Berio, Stravinsky and himself, March 6-14, 1987.

--Two premieres: Luciano Berio’s orchestral transcription of Brahms’ F-minor Clarinet Sonata (with Philharmonic principal Michele Zukovsky as soloist) Nov 6-9, and the revised version of William Kraft’s “Contextures,” April 2-5, 1987.

--Away from the Music Center, Zubin Mehta, former music director of the Philharmonic, will lead the orchestra in the opening-night concert at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Sept. 29. And Sanderling will lead a three-concert Beethoven Festival in the Wiltern Theatre, Oct. 5, 10 and 11.

Programs, conductors and soloists for the 1986-87 season:

Oct. 16, 17, 19--Kurt Sanderling, conductor; Isaac Stern, violin. Prelude to “Die Meistersinger” (Wagner); Violin Concerto (Brahms); Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven).

Oct. 22--Kurt Sanderling, conductor. Prelude to “Die Meistersinger” (Wagner); Symphony No. 8 (Schubert); Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven).

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Oct. 23, 24, 25--Kurt Sanderling, conductor. Symphony No. 8 (Schubert); Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner).

Oct. 30, 31, Nov. 1, 2--Daniel Lewis, conductor; Alicia de Larrocha, piano. Symphony No. 4 (Piston); Piano Concerto (Schumann); Symphony in C (Bizet).

Nov. 5--Daniel Lewis, conductor. Symphony No. 4 (Piston); Symphony in C (Bizet); Szell, “From My Life” (Smetana).

Nov. 6, 7, 9--Daniel Lewis, conductor; Michele Zukovsky, clarinet. “Jeu de cartes” (Stravinsky); Clarinet Sonata in F minor (Brahms/Berio); “From My Life” (Smetana/Szell).

Nov. 13, 14, 15, 16--Andre Previn, conductor; Heiichiro Ohyama, viola; Christine Cairns, mezzo-soprano; L.A. Master Chorale. “Principals” (Previn); Viola Concerto (Walton); “Alexander Nevsky” (Prokofiev).

Nov. 20, 21, 23--Andre Previn, conductor; Hildegard Behrens, soprano. Symphony No. 29 (Mozart); “Wozzeck” excerpts (Berg); Symphony No. 96 (Haydn); Closing Scene from “Salome” (R. Strauss).

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Dec. 4, 5, 7--Andre Previn, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano. Symphony for Classical Orchestra (Harold Shapero); Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven).

Dec. 11, 12, 14--Andre Previn, conductor; Kathleen Battle, soprano. Symphony No. 1, K. 16 (Mozart); “Exsultate, Jubilate” (Mozart); concert aria (Mozart); Symphony No. 2 (Vaughan Williams).

Dec. 18, 19, 20, 21--Andre Previn, conductor; Gordon Davidson, stage director. “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” (Previn/Stoppard).

Jan. 7, 8, 9, 11--Claus Peter Flor, conductor; Sidney Weiss, violin. “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto (Stravinsky); Adagio in E, K. 261 (Mozart); Violin Concerto (Korngold); Symphony No. 8 (Dvorak).

Jan. 15, 16, 17, 18--Sir Charles Groves, conductor; Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, piano. Symphony No. 1 (Sessions); Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven); Symphony No. 4 (Schumann).

Jan. 22, 23, 24, 25--David Atherton, conductor. Program to include: “Island Rhythms” (Joan Tower).

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Jan. 29, 30--Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Itzhak Perlman, violin. Symphony No. 99 (Haydn); Violin Concerto (Stravinsky); “Poem of Ecstasy” (Scriabin).

Feb. 1, 4--Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Roger Bobo, tuba. Symphony No. 99 (Haydn); Tuba Concerto (Williams); “Poem of Ecstasy” (Scriabin).

Feb. 5, 6, 7, 8--Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor. Serenade for Winds (R. Strauss); “Verklaerte Nacht” (Schoenberg); Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius).

Feb. 12, 13, 14, 15--Andre Previn, conductor; Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Symphony No. 1 (Harbison); Cello Concerto (Elgar) Symphony No. 102 (Haydn).

Feb. 19, 20, 22, 25--Andre Previn, conductor; Alexander Treger, violin. March from “Tsar Saltan” (Rimsky-Korsakov); Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich); Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky).

Feb. 27, 28, March 1--Andre Previn, conductor; Radu Lupu, piano. Symphony No. 1 (Zwilich); “La Mer” (Debussy); Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms).

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March 6, 7, 8--Pierre Boulez, conductor. “Notations” (Boulez); “Corale” (Berio); “The Wooden Prince” (Bartok).

March 12, 13, 14--Pierre Boulez, conductor; Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano; L.A. Master Chorale. “Le soleil des eaux” (Boulez); “Messagesquisse” (Boulez); “cummings ist der Dichter” (Boulez); “Le Roi des Etoiles” (Stravinsky); “Le Sacre du Printemps” (Stravinsky).

March 19, 20, 22--Andre Previn, conductor; Kyung-Wha Chung, violin. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6; Violin Concerto No. 2; “Scythian” Suite.

April 2, 3, 5--Andre Previn, conductor; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Pasadena Boys Choir. “Contextures” (Kraft); “Ma Mere l’Oye” (Ravel); “La Valse” (Ravel).

April 9, 10, 11, 12--Simon Rattle, conductor; Margaret Marshall, soprano; Jerry Hadley, tenor; David Thomas, bass; Los Angeles Master Chorale. “The Creation” (Haydn).

April 16, 17, 19--Simon Rattle, conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin. Program to include: Symphony No. 6 (Mahler).

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April 23, 24, 26--Andre Previn, conductor. “Atmospheres” (Ligeti); Five Pieces, Opus 16 (Schoenberg); Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff).

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