Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

making great music personal

our next performance

    • Thursday, 11 Feb 2010
    • The Broad Stage
    • 7 pm
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  • Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet
  • Rachmaninoff/Batjer Vocalise
  • Tchaikovsky String Sextet in D minor, “Souvenir de Florence”

Join us for LACO’s innovative chamber music series that explores the connections between music and other artistic expressions. On February 11, composer and pianist Bruce Broughton joins LACO to discuss the inspirations behind his extensive body of work. Margaret Batjer, who curates the series, builds a program around Broughton’s musical muses.

upcoming performance

    • Saturday, 20 Feb 2010
    • Alex Theatre
    • 8 pm
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    • Sunday, 21 Feb 2010
    • Royce Hall
    • 7 pm
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baroque +

  • Purcell Chacony in G minor
  • Vivaldi Cello Concerto in C minor
  • Bach Concerto in D major for Three Violins
  • Bach Oboe d’amore Concerto in A major
  • Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 5 in B-flat major

special event

21st annual silent film

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra proudly presents Buster Keaton’s hilarious silent comedy, The Cameraman (1928). The movie follows Buster Keaton as he sets out to impress a pretty office worker at MGM Newsreels by trading in his tintype operation for a movie camera with the big boys.

    • Sunday, 23 May 2010
    • Royce Hall
    • 6:30 pm
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about laco

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the film and record studios’ most gifted musicians. The respected music critic Jim Svejda praised LACO as “America’s finest chamber orchestra.” Learn More.

noteworthy & new

be there when chris thile and punch brothers join LACO!

LACO’s 8th annual concert gala, Made in California, is right around the corner! On February 6, experience the melting pot of musical backgrounds from classical to bluegrass as music director Jeffrey Kahane performs with his son Gabriel. Chris Thile performs on mandolin with his new band, Punch Brothers, as they join the members of the LACO strings and take a musical journey up and down the Golden State! Be there!

listen to LACO on performance today

On Friday, January 29, Performance Today broadcast the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s February 10, 2008 performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with Jeffrey Kahane at the keyboard. You can still listen at performancetoday.org. Thanks to Gregory Soukup & Mary Jo Carr and the National Endowment for the Arts for sponsoring this broadcast.

hear yo-yo ma play golijov again

On January 11, 2009, Yo-Yo Ma joined the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to perform the west coast premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul. Now, you can hear the performance again when SymphonyCast releases the broadcast on February 15, and Classical KUSC 91.5 FM airs it on Saturday, February 20 at 6 pm.

buy a flex subscription online now!

For the first time ever, Flex subscription packages (4 concerts or more; same number of seats per concert) for our Orchestral Series are available for purchase online. Get the benefits of a subscription with the flexibility that fits your schedule!

be a campus rep for LACO

Calling all college students! LACO is seeking LA area college and university students to be LACO campus reps. Perks include marketing and PR experience, an inside look at not-for-profit management and FREE tickets to world-class music! Know anyone who may be interested – you?? Pass the word on!

the LACO blog

can someone explain new age music to me?

I haven’t written a non-concert-related blog in a while, but there are a couple music-related things on my mind that I can’t stop thinking about. Firstly, after nearly 8 years of living in Los Angeles, I finally went to a performance at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. To be nitpicky, it wasn’t my first time at the Concert Hall – I’ve parked there to go to MOCA down the street, and a couple times have gone up and walked around on the roof – an totally legal activity that, contrary to the initial imagery in my head, doesn’t involve suction cups, a unitard, or a black ski mask. Here’s how to do it: There’s a public plaza/park on the roof that’s accessible from two stairways (one on the corner of Grand and 2nd; the other on the corner of Hope and 1st). On the roof are some nice gardens and a little amphitheater and stairs that lead you on a path up and through the metal sheeting. There are some cool views of downtown and the building itself. But I digress.

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