Hollywood Bowl Schedule for ’92 Season

Six orchestras will appear at Hollywood Bowl this summer, according to the preliminary announcement released by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The June 30-Sept. 16 season also features the return of ballet to the Bowl in a program produced by Jane Hermann, director of American Ballet Theatre.

The unusual number of visiting orchestras was caused by the Philharmonic’s trip to the Salzburg Festival, where it will become the first U.S. orchestra to be in residence for opera and concert performances.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, who becomes the Philharmonic music director in October, will conduct the orchestra in concerts at the Bowl on July 28 and 30, in repertory they will perform in Salzburg. Filling in during their absence in August will be Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony, Bruno Weil leading the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Herrera de la Fuente with the Mexico City Philharmonic and James DePreist and the Oregon Symphony.

The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, reformed last year, will take two of the week-night concerts in August, as well as weekend pops concerts.

Conductor John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra will also back the dance program, July 24 and 25, being created by Hermann. The concert is projected to enlist “stars from leading ballet companies,” although only Julio Bocca has been named so far.

Preview week begins with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gerard Schwarz, in a Mozart concert June 30 and a Vivaldi-Handel program July 1. Three holiday fireworks concerts, led by David Alan Miller, follow July 2-4.

The official opening concert is July 7, featuring pianist Alfred Brendel in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Lawrence Foster. Brendel also plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 on July 9.

In between comes a recital by violinist Pinchas Zukerman with pianist Marc Neikrug, opening the Virtuoso series. It continues with recitals by Evelyn Glennie, the hearing-impaired percussionist who made her Bowl debut last summer; pianist Rudolf Firkusny; the Romeros guitar quartet, now listing three generations (Celedonio, Celin, Pepe and Celino), and a concert by Ashkenazy and the Berlin Radio Symphony with pianist Alicia de Larrocha.

Still to be announced are the Jazz at the Bowl events and the Sunday Sunset Series, formerly the province of the now-suspended Philharmonic Institute Orchestra.