Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

2009-10 season

Join us for our 2009-10 season! Infusing time-honored classics with a fresh American perspective, music director Jeffrey Kahane has designed concerts to inspire you. Enjoy masterworks ranging from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to a bluegrass-inflected mandolin concerto by the versatile Chris Thile. You’ll be welcomed into the collegial warmth of the LACO experience, get to know some of the best new talent our country has to offer and be energized by the “sheer vitality” (LA Weekly) that flows between the musicians and the audience at our concerts.

“Ideal, definitive, perfect: These are words one should never use in a music review. So let ‘fully realized’ describe Jeffrey Kahane’s performance…as he led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard…There were throat-catching moments…touching beauty…innocent joy…the orchestra’s collaboration was, well, perfect.” (Los Angeles Times)

our next performance

• • Saturday, 17 Oct 2009
  • Alex Theatre
  • 8 pm
• • Sunday, 18 Oct 2009
  • Royce Hall
  • 7 pm

four seasons

• Margaret Batjer, leader & violin

• Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E major, La primavera (“Spring”)
• Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G minor, L’estate (“Summer”)
• Vivaldi Violin Concerto in F major, L’autunno (“Autumn”)
• Vivaldi Violin Concerto in F minor, L’inverno (“Winter”)
• Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 in A major, (“Italian”)

Feel the sun on your shoulders and sip wine on the Piazza San Marco. Experience spring, summer, fall and winter in Italy with Venetian Baroque master Vivaldi. The German composer Mendelssohn, whose vibrant symphony was inspired his by own travels, reveals his 19th-century impressions of Rome and Naples. LACO concertmaster Margaret Batjer leads our wonderful journey from the first chair.