Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2020, before the pandemic. Photo by Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2021-22 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall will feature “Music Director Gustavo Dudamel’s Pan-American Music Initiative, the resurrection of the social-justice-themed Power to the People! festival and a multi-genre Gen X festival paying tribute to the decidedly un-slacker-like achievements of post-boomer artists,” writes Jessica Gelt in Tuesday’s (6/22) Los Angeles Times. “L.A. Phil Chief Executive Chad Smith anticipates that Disney Hall will welcome audiences at 100% capacity. He acknowledged that a resurgence of the virus could alter the situation…. The Gen X festival, curated by Thomas Adès, examines the work of artists and creators born between 1965 and 1980…. Another festival, Reel Change: The New Era of Film Music, celebrates the sonic voices and explorations of a new generation of film composers. It is curated by [composer/pianist] Kris Bowers…. A staged production of Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ will be produced in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre…. Highlights include ‘Symphonic Duke Ellington’ with Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conductor Thomas Wilkins and the L.A. Phil; appearances by conductor emeritus Zubin Mehta and conductor laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen; pianists Igor Levit and Yuja Wang; violinist Hilary Hahn; vocalists J’Nai Bridges and Emmylou Harris; and actor Jeff Goldblum.”
