Thu / Feb 9, 2023 - 8:00PM
Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff Concerto 1
Rachmaninoff’s youthful and flashy First Piano Concerto, plus the composer’s final masterpiece.
Rachmaninoff Festival
Concerts and Humanities Events • FEB 2-19, 2023
THE CONCERTS:
Rachmaninoff Cycle with Yuja Wang
5 PROGRAMS • FEB 9-19
Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil are joined by the renowned Yuja Wang in a cycle of perhaps the most beloved piano showpieces ever written.
“Listening to his music, it’s just the most sensuous and passionate thing. I don’t know where he got it,” Wang has said of Rachmaninoff.
“Every time I play his music, it’s a gift.”
Across two weekends, Wang and the LA Phil will perform all four of Rachmaninoff’s lush and virtuosic piano concertos as well as the enthralling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Dudamel will conduct other major works by the composer.
Rachmaninoff Cycle with Yuja Wang • FEB 9-19
Concerts
Fri / Feb 10, 2023 - 11:00AM
Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody
Rachmaninoff’s enthralling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Symphonic Dances.
Feb 11-12, 2023
Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff Concerto 2
Rachmaninoff’s captivating second concerto and Symphonic Dances
Feb 16-17, 2023
Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff Concerto 3
Rachmaninoff’s virtuosic Third Concerto and haunting choral symphony
Feb 18-19, 2023
Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff Concerto 4
Rachmaninoff’s rare and dazzling Fourth Piano Concerto and The Bells
The LA Phil Humanities Initiative is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen.
THE EVENTS:
Rachmaninoff Was Here:
The Golden Age of Beverly Hills Bohemianism
3 COMMUNITY EVENTS • FEB 2-18
The LA Phil Humanities Initiative has teamed up with Beverly Hills cultural historians to offer a series of public programs inviting audiences to explore the artistic communities that were flourishing during the composer’s brief but important time in Los Angeles.
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Humanities Events
At The Maybourne Beverly Hills
Thu / Feb 2, 2023 - 7:00PM
The Beverly Hills Songbook
Rachmaninoff Was Here Opening Event
at The Maybourne Beverly Hills
Celebrate the immense musical legacy of Beverly Hills, from Sergei Rachmaninoff and Vladimir Horowitz's weekly at-home performances to the standards popularized by such acclaimed residents as George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen.
at Beverly Hills Women's Club
Sat / Feb 11, 2023 - 7:00PM
Beverly Hills Avant-Garde: From Surrealism to the Sunset Strip
Rachmaninoff Was Here Festival
at the Beverly Hills Women's Club
Los Angeles was a hotbed for artistic innovation in the early 1940s. Learn more about this vibrant period, stretching from the surrealists to the nightclubs along the Sunset Strip, with an evening of food, conversation, music, and magic.
at Greystone Mansion & Gardens
Sat / Feb 18, 2023 - 2:00PM
Rachmaninoff’s Beverly Hills
Rachmaninoff Was Here Festival
at the Greystone Mansion & Gardens
Explore Rachmaninoff's daily life in Beverly Hills, from his friendship with fellow composer Igor Stravinsky to his meeting with Walt Disney to music-making in private settings for friends and family.
When Rachmaninoff and his family took up residence in Beverly Hills in 1942, he entered a creative community of musicians, authors, and filmmakers – many of whom were émigrés, having fled Europe at the start of the Second World War. It was a time of incredible artistic and intellectual activity nurtured by the salons and private performances taking place in Beverly Hills’ homes, gardens, and estates, including Rachmaninoff’s own.
We invite you to take a tour of Rachmaninoff's life in Los Angeles through our interactive map.
Rachmaninoff’s Beverly Hills "Dacha"
610 North Elm Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Home of Vera and Igor Stravinsky
1262 South Victoria Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Hollywood Bowl
2301 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Home of Lillian and Walt Disney
4053 Woking Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027