Philharmonic Assn. Details Hollywood Bowl 71st Season

A fifth guest orchestra visiting Hollywood Bowl this summer, complete lineups in the amphitheater’s five-concert Jazz series and five-event Virtuoso Series, plus program details for the entire 71st Cahuenga Pass season were revealed Thursday by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. at a press luncheon.

Added to the list of guest ensembles playing at the Bowl while the Los Angeles Philharmonic spends a month in Austria at the Salzburg Festival, is the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, conducted by John Williams. The Esplanade Orchestra, Boston’s second pops instrumental ensemble, will appear Aug. 9 on the three-concert Sunset Concerts, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

For the 13th summer, Jazz at the Bowl will again be performed on Wednesday nights at 8. The celebrated Ella Fitzgerald, with a “special guest,” begins the series, July 15. On July 29, an evening of Brazilian jazz features musicians from that country, led by harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans. A “Hot Night of Blues,” Aug. 12, offers performances by veteran blues guitarist John Lee Hooker and his Coast to Coast Blues Band.

Celebrating his 75th birthday year, veteran trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie appears Aug. 26, with a lineup of longtime associates including Joe Williams, Paquito d’Rivera, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Jon Hendricks, Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Diane Reeves and Clark Terry.

To conclude the series, Sept. 16, is a tribute to jazz legends, performed by, among others, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, clarinetist Eddie Daniels and vibraphonist Gary Burton.

The Virtuoso Series, five Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. offers violinist Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Marc Neikrug, July 8; percussionist Evelyn Glennie, July 22; the Berlin Radio Symphony, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and pianist Alicia de Larrocha, Aug. 5; veteran pianist Rudolf Firkusny, Aug. 19, and the reconstituted Romero Guitar Quartet, Sept. 9.

An already announced ballet evening, produced by Jane Hermann and featuring dancers from American Ballet Theatre and other major American companies, will be given three times, July 24-26.

In addition to Julio Bocca, the dancers will include Judith Fugate, Eleanora Cassano, Cynthia Harvey, Evelyn Cisneros and Tony Randazzo. They will be assisted by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conducted by John Mauceri.

On four Monday nights, the Bowl will present E. Nakamichi Chamber Concerts at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, across the freeway from Hollywood Bowl. Appearing on that series are the Laredo/Kalichstein-Robinson Trio, July 20; members of the L.A. Philharmonic, July 27; the Angeles Quartet, Aug. 3, and the Vermeer Quartet, Aug. 10.

On the Bowl season proper, to be performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl Orchestras, now announced are appearances by conductors Eri Klas, Keith Lockhart, Peter Maag, David Alan Miller and Gerard Schwarz; pianists Krystian Zimerman, Gary Graffman, Stephen Hough and Yefim Bronfman; singers Peggy Lee, Lea Salonga, Mel Torme, Maureen McGovern, Jennifer Smith and Patti LuPone.

Information: (213) 850-2000.