23-24 Sunday SU2
LA PHIL, Walt Disney Concert Hall
With ClassicAsobi’s advice, I secured a well constructed 2023-24 LA Phil, Walt Disney Concert Hall season subscription.
Went with the Sunday Matinees 2 (SU2), and made four exchanges.
Number of Tickets: 9
Total: $1,547.00
Front orchestra, second row, dead center.
SU2 comes with these programs >> link
Immediately replaced four concerts with others that we preferred. The big benefit of subscribing is the fact that subscribers have an exclusive window of purchasing other concerts, and exchanging, without fee, with subscribed concerts. It is very easy to make exchanges on the laphil.com site. No need to call the subscription service. This is something I learned as the nice LA Phil subscriber service representative walked me through how the subscription level is valuable. I used to construct my program using the Create Your Own (CYO) program, and you can create the same program this way, but you will not have the subscription status, which means you do not have access to the early window to purchase other tickets. Early access means that the best seats are available. Also, if you are a subscriber, there are no fees to make exchanges. CYO members, or normal ticket purchasers for that matter, pay a $15 fee every time for exchanges.
At the end, this is the program created for Balse at the LA PHIL 2023-24 season:
Gershwin and Rachmaninoff
SUN, OCT 15
2:00PM
Jessie MONTGOMERY — Coincident Dances
GERSHWIN — Piano Concerto in F
Intermission
RACHMANINOFF — Symphonic Dances
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Elim Chan, conductor
Igor Levit, piano
Mozart’s “Prague” Symphony
SUN, JAN 7
2:00PM
STRAVINSKY — Danses concertantes
Veronika KRAUSAS — Sphinx, Concerto Grosso for two double bass and harpsichord (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music)
Intermission
MOZART — Symphony No. 38, K. 504, "Prague"
Gemma New, conductor
Joanne Pearce Martin, harpsichord
Christopher Hanulik, bass
David Allen Moore, bass
Dudamel Leads Das Rheingold
Celebrating Frank Gehry
SUN, JAN 21
2:00PM
WAGNER — Das Rheingold
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Frank Gehry, scenic design
Alberto Arvelo, director
Cindy Figueroa, costume designer
Ryan Speedo Green, Wotan
Raehann Bryce-Davis, Fricka
Simon O’Neill, Loge
Barry Banks, Mime
Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Alberich
Morris Robinson, Fasolt
Peixin Chen, Fafner
Jessica Faselt, Freia
Ann Toomey, Woglinde
Alexandria Shiner, Wellgunde
Taylor Raven, Flosshilde
Tamara Mumford, Erda
John Matthew Myers, Froh
Kyle Albertson, Donner
Ravel and Adès
SUN, FEB 11
2:00PM
Thomas ADÈS — The Tempest Symphony
RAVEL — Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Intermission
Thomas ADÈS — Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
RAVEL — La valse
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Thomas Adès, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff
SUN, MAR 10
2:00PM
Sofia GUBAIDULINA — Poema-Skazka ("Fairy-Tale Poem")
RACHMANINOFF — Piano Concerto No. 2
Intermission
PROKOFIEV — Symphony No. 5
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
Mao Fujita, piano
Elgar and Vaughan Williams
SUN, APR 7
2:00PM
Arvo PÄRT — Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
ELGAR — Cello Concerto
Intermission
Vaughan WILLIAMS — Symphony No. 8
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Simone Young, conductor
Gautier Capuçon, cello
Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
SUN, APR 14
2:00PM
Jonathan Bailey HOLLAND — Symphony (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
RAVEL — Tzigane
Intermission
SAINT-SAËNS — Symphony No. 3, "Organ"
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Louis Langrée, conductor
Martin Chalifour, violin
Dudamel Leads Mozart and Strauss
SUN, MAY 5
2:00PM
Andreia PINTO CORREIA — new work (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund)
MOZART — Piano Concerto No. 9, “Jeunehomme”
Intermission
STRAUSS — Don Quixote
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Maria João Pires, piano
Robert deMaine, cello
Teng Li, viola
Dvořák and Ortiz with Dudamel
SUN, MAY 12
2:00PM
John WILLIAMS — Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Gabriela ORTIZ — Altar de cuerda (LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund)
Intermission
DVOŘÁK — Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
María Dueñas, violin
