58 Events Set for ’88 Hollywood Bowl Season

Fifty-eight musical events to be performed between July 3 and Sept. 17 comprise the 1988 Hollywood Bowl season, announced Wednesday by Ernest Fleischmann, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The L.A. Philharmonic will give 37 of these performances; the visiting Pittsburgh Symphony will give another five, Aug. 30-Sept. 3. In addition, there will be six jazz concerts, a series of Virtuoso concerts on Wednesday nights, and “Sunday Sunset” concerts by the Philharmonic Institute Orchestra.

The subscription season opens July 12, when Soviet conductor Yuri Temirkanov leads the L.A. Philharmonic, with flutist James Galway as soloist, in a Russian program concluding with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” in the Ravel orchestration. The season ends with a pair of pops concerts conducted by David Alan Miller, Sept. 16 and 17, when Alexander Treger plays Wieniawski’s Second Violin Concerto on a program concluding with Handel’s “Royal Fireworks” Music.

In between, the lineup of Bowl conductors for 1988 lists Daniel Lewis, Edo de Waart, John Nelson, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Leonard Slatkin, Andre Previn and, leading the Pittsburgh Symphony, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Eduardo Mata. Among piano soloists will be Andrea Lucchesini, Emanuel Ax, Alicia de Larrocha, Barry Douglas, Horacio Gutierrez, George Shearing, Alexander Toradze and Andre Watts. Violin soloists include Miriam Fried, Joshua Bell, Cho-Liang Lin and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Among the pop soloists are Herb Alpert, Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Sergio Mendes, Patti Page and Mel Torme.

The Jazz Series offers Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass (Aug. 20); Grover Washington Jr. and the Stan Getz Quartet (Aug. 3); Oscar Peterson and Jon Hendricks & Co. (Aug. 24); Joe Williams, Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Orchestra, and the Count Basie Orchestra (Sept. 7), and Lionel Hampton, Pete Fountain and Ernestine Anderson (Sept. 14).

Appearing on the Virtuoso series will be flutist Galway (July 13); the Romeros guitar quartet (July 27); Soviet pianist Vladimir Ovchinikov (Aug. 10), and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Aug. 31).

Three Mozart concerts are among the preseason offerings, July 6, 8 and 9, when the performers include pianist Alicia de Larrocha and violinist Vladimir Spivakov. And twin Fireworks concerts, July 3 and 4, mark the Fourth of July celebrations, when vocalist Andy Williams will be featured.

In addition, Fleischmann announced new corporate sponsors to the list of Philharmonic patrons: American Airlines, Data General Corp. and radio station KFAC. In all, these three organizations will sponsor a total of 11 concerts in the summer season.