14 Conductors to Lead Philharmonic in 27-Week Season

In its 27-week, 1989-90 season in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be led by 14 conductors.

Prominent among the podium leaders are former Philharmonic music director Andre Previn (seven weeks) and East German conductor Kurt Sanderling (five weeks). Otherwise, each of the guests--also including Philharmonic assistant conductors David Alan Miller and Heiichiro Ohyama--will lead the orchestra for one- or two-week periods.

Dates and programs:

Oct. 5, 6, 8: Andre Previn, conductor. Beethoven: Symphony No. 4; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4.

Oct. 12, 13, 14: Previn, conductor; Sidney Weiss, violin. Mozart: Violin Concerto in D, K.211; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2.

Oct. 18: Previn, conductor; Lorin Levee, clarinet. Neilsen: Clarinet Concerto; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2

Oct. 19 and 22: Previn, conductor; Levee, clarinet. Beethoven: “Egmont” Overture; Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto; R. Strauss: “Ein Heldenleben.”

Oct. 26, 27: Kurt Sanderling, conductor; Walter Klien, piano. Haydn: Overture, “La Fedelta Premiata”; Mozart: Piano Concerto in F, K.459; Bruckner: Symphony No. 3.

Nov. 2, 3, 4, 5: Sanderling, conductor; Ronald Leonard, cello. Mozart: Overture, “Die Zauberflote”; Haydn: Cello Concerto in C; Beethoven: Symphony No. 3.

Nov. 9, 10, 11, 12: Heiichiro Ohyama, conductor; Lynn Harrell, cello.

Adler: Elegy for Strings; Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1; Berlioz: “Symphonie Fantastique.”

Nov. 16, 17, 18, 19, 22: Andrew Litton, conductor; Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, piano; Waggoner: “The Train”; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1; Schumann: Symphony No. 1 (Nov. 16, 17, 18 and 19 only); Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 (Nov. 22 only).

Nov. 24 and 26: Litton, conductor; Malcolm Frager, piano. Weber: Overture, “Oberon”; Schumann: Piano Concerto (original version); Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1.

Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 2, 3: Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Malcolm McDowell, narrator; Kathryn Harris, soprano; Vinson Cole, tenor; David Elsler, tenor; Michael Devlin, baritone; men of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Beethoven: Symphony No. 1; Stravinsky: “Oedipus Rex.”

Dec. 8 and 10: Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor. Schoenberg: “Pelleas und Melisande”; Sibelius: “Valse Triste”; Sibelius: Symphony No. 5.

Dec. 14, 15, 16, 17: Bruno Weil, conductor; Olli Mustonen, piano. Mozart: Overture, “Don Giovanni”; Piano Concerto in E-flat, K.271; Symphony No. 36.

Jan. 4, 5, 6, 7: Erich Leinsdorf, conductor; women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Harris: Symphony No. 3; Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements; Debussy: Three Nocturnes; Berlioz: Three Pieces from “Le Damnation de Faust.”

Jan. 11, 12, 13, 14: Leinsdorf, conductor. Mussorgsky: Four Pieces from “Khovanshchina”; Hindemith: Symphony, “Mathis der Maler”; Stravinsky: “The Song of the Nightingale”; Busonl: Two Excerpts from “Dr. Faust.”

Jan. 17: Previn, conductor; Anne Dlener Glles, flute; Lou Anne Neill, harp. Beethoven: Overture, “Egmont”; Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5.

Jan. 18, 19, 20: Previn, conductor; Kyung-Wha Chung, violin. Stucky: “Son et Lumiere”; Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5.

Jan. 26, 27, 28: David Alan Miller, conductor; Janet Ferguson, flute; Alan Feinberg and Robert Taub, pianos. Copland: “Our Town”; Powell: Concerto for Two Pianos; Nielsen: Flute Concerto; Sibelius: Symphony No. 7.

Feb. 2, 3, 4: Simon Rattle, conductor; Anne Evans, soprano; Hans Sotin, bass.

Messiaen: “Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum”; Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries and Final Scene from “Die Walkure.”

Feb. 8, 9, 11: Simon Rattle, conductor; Stephen Hough, piano; John Aler, tenor; men of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3; Liszt: “A Faust Symphony.”

Feb. 15,, 16, 18: Libor Pesek, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano. Mozart: Symphony No. 32; Piano Concerto in A, K. 488; Strauss: “Burleske”; “Also sprach Zarathustra.”

Feb. 23, 24, 25: Previn, conductor; Jessye Norman, soprano; Florence Qulvar, mezzo-soprano; David Gordon, Gary Lakes, tenors; James Johnson, bass; Hans Hotter, speaker; L.A. Master Chorale. Schoenberg: “Gurrelieder.”

March 2, 3, 4: Sanderling, conductor; Peter Rossel, piano. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Symphony No. 1.

March 8, 10, 11: Sanderling, conductor. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3.

March 14, 15, 16: Kurt Sanderling, conductor; Antje Welthsar, violin; Michael Sanderling, cello. Brahms: Double Concerto; Symphony No. 2 (March 14 only); Brahms: Symphony No. 4 (March 15 and 16 only).

March 29, 30, April 1: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin. Program to include: Mozart: Violin Concerto in G, K. 216; Lutoslawski: “Chain 2.”

April 6, 7, 8: Marek Janowski, conductor; Horacio Gutierrez, piano. Wagner: Overture, “Tannhauser”; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1; Schumann: Symphony No. 3.

April 11, 12, 15: Previn, conductor; Peter Serkin, piano; Sylvia McNair, soprano (April 12 and 15 only). Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (April 11 only); Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (April 12 and 15 only).

April 19, 20, 22: David Zinman, conductor; Pinchas Zukerman, violin. Mozart: Violin Concerto in A, K. 219; Neikrug: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2.

April 26, 27, 29: Previn, conductor. Dvorak: Overture, “Carnival”; Symphony No. 9 (“New World”); Harbison: Concerto for Double Brass Choir and Orchestra.

Information: (213) 972-7300.