Perlman to Open 70th Bowl Season : Music: Highlights of the 66-concert summer schedule include a MozartFest and the debut of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
The public debut of the recently formed Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, a single appearance by tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a four-concert MozartFest, three different appearances by violinist Itzhak Perlman and a Sept. 10 “special evening†to be staged by director Peter Sellars highlight the 70th summer season at Hollywood Bowl.
More predictable programming and performers announced Wednesday by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. include familiar music by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Bach in an unprecedented 66 concerts, 30 of them to be played by the L.A. Philharmonic during the subscription season, July 9-Sept. 14. (In 1990, 63 events were presented in the Bowl and the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.)
The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, formed last fall as a touring, recording and performing ensemble under the leadership of John Mauceri, will play 10 performances on five Friday and Saturday night programs, plus two pre-season concerts on July 3 and 4. On July 12 and 13, Mauceri and the Bowl Orchestra will appear in a program titled “The Gershwins in Hollywood,†with dancer-singer Gregory Hines as one of the soloists.
For the third time, Soviet conductor Yuri Temirkanov will open the season--as he did in 1988 and 1989. That July 9 opening will feature Perlman, who will also play with the Philharmonic under Temirkanov on July 11. Between the orchestral appearances, Perlman will give a recital in the amphitheater July 10.
Violinist-conductor Iona Brown will make her Bowl debut in two pre-season concerts with the L.A. Chamber Orchestra. On July 5, she will lead Bach’s six “Brandenburg†Concertos; on July 6, she will preside over four works by Vivaldi, including “The Four Seasons.â€
Among conductors set to lead the Philharmonic during the season are Bowl debutants Stuart Challender from Australia, Peter Maag from Switzerland and Marek Janowski from Germany, and more familiar baton-holders: Simon Rattle, Henry Mancini, Lawrence Foster, John Williams, John Nelson, David Alan Miller and Erich Kunzel.
Among the piano soloists are Leif Ove Andsnes from Norway, Nikolai Petrov and Mikhail Pletniev from the Soviet Union, Artur Pizarro from Portugal, Lars Vogt and Peter Roesel from Germany, Wayne Marshall from the West Indies and Richard Fields from the United States.
Soloists in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, to be conducted by Rattle on Aug. 13, are the British singers Alison Hargan, Alfreda Hodgson and Robert Tear, and the American bass-baritone Terry Cook.
Pavarotti will appear with the Philharmonic in a pre-season Pension Fund Benefit on June 24. According to Philharmonic spokeswoman Norma Flynn, that event is virtually sold out, except for some remaining $1,000 tickets.
Other singers scheduled during the summer are Lorna Luft, Mandy Patinkin and Tom Wopat.
Among other projected highlights of the season is the four-concert MozartFest Aug. 20, 22, 27 and 29, at which four Mozart symphonies, plus assorted concertos, will be performed.
Again this year, four chamber music concerts will take place at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, across the Hollywood Freeway from the Bowl. The opening event in that series is an appearance by the Takacs String Quartet July 8.
Besides the Tuesday-Thursday Philharmonic series and Friday-Saturday pops programs, the Bowl again offers a Wednesday night Virtuoso series, a Sunday night Sunset series, five Infiniti Jazz at the Bowl performances and the seventh annual JVC Jazz at the Bowl Concert on Aug. 25.
Information and season brochure: (213) 850-2000.
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