Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

making great music personal



our next performance

    • Saturday, 20 Mar 2010
    • Alex Theatre
    • 8 pm
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    • Sunday, 21 Mar 2010
    • Royce Hall
    • 7 pm
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hope

  • Schulhoff Double Concerto for Violin and Piano – arranged by Daniel Hope (world premiere)
  • Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
  • Weill Symphony No. 2
Jeffrey Kahane

Witness the evocative power of Daniel Hope’s “astonishingly beautiful playing” (The Birmingham Mail) in a concert that pays tribute to three great composers whose music was suppressed under the Nazi regime. Inspired by the historical and personal significance this program holds for both Hope and Kahane, this performance celebrates the power of art to transcend adversity.

upcoming performance

    • Thursday, 25 Mar 2010
    • The Broad Stage
    • 7 pm
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westside connections 2

  • Sibelius String Quartet in D minor, “Intimate Voices”
  • Barber Summer Music for Wind Quintet
  • Janáček String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”

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
Laco People

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

the Four Seasons come back around!

LACO opened the 2009-10 season with Four Seasons on October 18, featuring our LACO virtuosos and concertmaster Margaret Batjer. You can hear this performance again when SymphonyCast releases the broadcast on March 29, and Classical KUSC 91.5 FM airs it on Saturday, April 3 at 6 pm. The national broadcast of Four Seasons is made possible by Ray & Anne Lowe.

new podcast: jeffrey kahane on hope

Listen as LACO music director Jeffrey Kahane discusses his personal family connection to the Holocaust and the March 20 & 21 program that features music suppressed by the Nazi regime. Listen to the podcast now!

donate food for a free ticket

LACO’s food drive is well under way and there is still time to donate! Throughout the month of March, LACO is collecting food for the Orchestras Feeding America National Food Drive. When you bring a full bag of food to Hope, Westside Connections 2 and/or Family Concert 2, you will receive one free concert ticket per full bag of food donated. For more information, visit the LACO blog or contact Nick at 213 622 7001 × 200 or at nicknorton@laco.org.

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

just when you think you've heard everything...you haven't

As a program annotator, I’ve written notes for over 200 pieces. Often, I’m already familiar with the pieces I am assigned, but if I haven’t heard one of the works on my list, chances are, I’ve heard of the composer. Sometimes I write about music that has only recently been composed, and I must go straight to the source to ask the composer for information about a piece for which the ink is barely dry. Program annotating is a wonderful job because it deepens my learning about already well-known composers, and keeps me abreast of new compositions coming down the pipeline.

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