Sellars Sets ‘Dream’ Bowl Program

Peter Sellars, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s creative consultant, is doing it again. Now he has put together what may seem an oddball program for the Hollywood Bowl concert Sept. 10: a first half presenting bassist Charlie Haden’s recent, politically motivated jazz cantata, “Dream Keeper,” played by Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, and a second half reviving two works by the Mexican composer, Carlos Chavez, played by the Philharmonic.

From the Glyndebourne Festival in England, where he is staging Mozart’s “Magic Flute” for a mid-July opening, Sellars said that pairing works by Haden and by the sometimes neglected Chavez is part of his ongoing attempt “to explore the many possibilities of having the Philharmonic onstage with another important Los Angeles-based ensemble.”