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The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Classical California KUSC continue their annual radio broadcast partnership, reaching listeners across Southern California. This broadcast series, recorded during the LA Phil’s 2022/23 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, pairs the orchestra with an impressive roster of guest artists and conductors, showcasing an eclectic repertoire that includes world premieres from composers Donghoon Shin, Clarice Assad, Ellen Reid, and Gabriella Smith. Through the organizations’ ongoing partnership with WFMT and the WFMT Radio Network, the 2023 broadcast series will also be syndicated nationwide.
The concerts in the 2023 broadcast series will air locally on KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Night program, the station’s weekly local concert spotlight, at 7:00pm. It will feature Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program of works by LA Phil Creative Chair John Adams, Mozart, and Julián Orbón.
2023 SCHEDULE OF RADIO BROADCASTS (programs and artists subject to change) KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Nights, 7:00PM |
KUSC AIR DATE: August 20, 2023
RECORD DATE: July 11, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Leah Hawkins soprano
Rihab Chaieb, mezzo-soprano
Mario Chang, tenor
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone
Los Angeles Master Chorale Grant Gershon, Artistic Director Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
VERDI Requiem
KUSC AIR DATE: August 27, 2023
RECORD DATE: July 20, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
PROKOFIEV Classical Symphony
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
PROKOFIEV Selections from Romeo and Juliet
KUSC AIR DATE: September 3, 2023
RECORD DATE: July 25, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Makoto Ozone, piano
Cindy McTEE Timepiece
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
KUSC AIR DATE: September 10, 2023
RECORD DATE: August 8, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Ryan Bancroft, conductor
Eric Lu, piano
Caroline SHAW Entr’acte
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
ELGAR Enigma Variations
KUSC AIR DATE: September 17, 2023
RECORD DATE: August 15, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Louis Langrée, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
BOULANGER D’un matin de printemps
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
KUSC AIR DATE: September 24, 2023
RECORD DATE: August 17, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Anna Rakitina, conductor
Sterling Elliott, cello
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
KUSC AIR DATE: October 1, 2023
RECORD DATE: August 29, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Simone Menezes, conductor
Clara-Jumi Kang, violin
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
KUSC AIR DATE: October 8, 2023
RECORD DATE: August 31, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gemma New, conductor
Nathan Cole, violin
Jessie MONTGOMERY Shift, Change, Turn
TCHAIKOVSKY (orch. MATTHEWS) Selections from The Seasons, Op. 37
VIVALDI The Four Seasons.
KUSC AIR DATE: October 15, 2023
RECORD DATE: September 5, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Bomsori Kim, violin
MOZART Don Giovanni Overture
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish”
MOZART Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
KUSC AIR DATE: October 22, 2023
RECORD DATE: September 12, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Pacific Chorale
Robert Istad, Artistic Director
Adam SCHOENBERG Cool Cat (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Philip GLASS Violin Concerto No. 1
HOLST The Planets