L.A. Chamber Orchestra Plans Its Season

Jeffrey Kahane will conduct six of the eight subscription programs by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra during the 2000-01 season. Guest conductors Joseph Swensen and Bernard Labadie will lead the others.

The season begins with a single performance in Royce Hall, UCLA, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m.; the subsequent programs each will be given twin performances, first in Royce Hall, then in the Alex Theatre in Glendale, both at 8 p.m.

Opening night brings soloist Joshua Bell to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Kahane and the ensemble on a program with Copland’s Three Latin American sketches and Haydn’s Symphony No. 103, “Drumroll.”

Joseph Swensen leads the Oct. 20 and 21 program, which lists Stravinsky’s Concerto in D, Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto--with soloist Max Levinson--and Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony.

Kahane returns, Nov. 17 and 18, conducting Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 2, the Oboe Concerto by Richard Strauss and, with himself at the piano, Mozart’s Concerto No. 22, K. 482.

Kahane will lead Bach’s Mass in B minor for the events of Dec. 8 and 9, when the orchestra will be joined by the L.A. Master Chorale and by, among others, soloists Janice Chandler, Susan Platts and Alan Bennett.

The orchestral program for Feb. 16 and 17 includes Mozart’s Serenade No. 10, K. 361; Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in D, Opus 6, No. 7; and the Serenade by Tchaikovsky.

Clarinetist Gary Gray and pianist Seung-Un Ha are soloists on the program for March 9 and 10, offering Lutoslawski’s Dance Preludes, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 and Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.

Labadie conducts the April 6 and 7 performances, which list two Haydn symphonies, Nos. 26 (“Lamentatione”) and 49 (“La Passione”), and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, with soloists Karina Gauvin and Catherine Robbin.

Kahane conducts the final performances of the season, May 4 and 5, featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson in Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D and Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and flutist Susan Greenberg in Bruce Broughton’s Concerto for Piccolo, the program closing with Schubert’s Symphony No. 3.

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