FOUR VISITING ORCHESTRAS : BOWL SEASON FOR 1987 ANNOUNCED

Visiting orchestras and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, resident ensemble at Hollywood Bowl for seven decades, will appear on the 66th summer season of concerts at the outdoor amphitheater.

Three of the visiting orchestras--the Vienna Philharmonic, Boston Pops and Long Beach Symphony--will appear on special, non-subscription events outside the 1987 summer series.

Under Leonard Bernstein, the Austrian ensemble will play two post-season concerts at the Bowl, Sept. 14 and 15. Conducted by its music director, John Williams, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra appears July 19. And the Long Beach Symphony, conducted by Murry Sidlin, plays the Fourth of July Concert preceding the opening of the summer season.

During the season, Charles Dutoit will conduct the Montreal Symphony, the orchestra of which he is music director, for five consecutive concerts, in the week of Aug. 4-8.

The 10-week subscription season opens July 8 with a Beethoven program to be conducted by Gunther Herbig, and with Alfred Brendel as piano soloist. It closes, Sept. 11 and 12, with twin Fireworks Finale concerts led by the young American conductor, Hugh Wolff, who will preside over the final week of the season.

In between, the series schedule offers other debuts by conductor Andrew Litton, pianists Peter Roesel and Olli Mustonen, pianist/vocalist Michael Feinstein, violinist Joseph Swensen and cellist Matt Haimovitz.

Among the returning artists will be conductors Andre Previn, Edo de Waart, Ivan Fischer, Lukas Foss, Lawrence Foster, Erich Kunzel, Daniel Lewis, Henry Mancini, David Alan Miller, Leonard Slatkin and David Zinman; pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Jorge Bolet and Krystian Zimerman; guitarist Christopher Parkening; flutist James Galway; violinists Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and Midori, cellist Lynn Harrell; harmonica player Larry Adler, and popular artists Cab Calloway, George Shearing, Dudley Moore, Johnny Mathis and Mel Torme.

In addition to a five-concert Virtuoso Series on Wednesday nights, there will be a five-concert Jazz at the Bowl series on Wednesdays, offering performances by Ella Fitzgerald (July 15); Al Hirt, Pete Fountain and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band (July 29); Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis (Aug. 19); Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and the Round Midnight Band (Sept. 2), and the Modern Jazz Quartet with Carmen McRae, Betty Carter and the L.A. Jazz Legends (Sept. 9).

Also, a Sunday Sunset series by the Philharmonic Institute Orchestra will offer appearances by Institute co-directors (and pianists) Previn and Foss, as well as by pianist Urusla Oppens and singers Kaaren Erickson, Jacalyn Bower, Timothy Jenkins and Michael Devlin.

For free season brochure: (213) 972-7211.