Great Music, Dazzling Hall

Great music comes alive! Enliven your Sunday afternoons with Maestro Vener, the orchestra and some of the greatest music ever written. Like the silver panels of Walt Disney Concert Hall, your spirits will swoop, soar and sparkle as the music resounds around and within you.

Maestro Vener and Cal Phil reinvent the concert for today’s listener. With a critically-acclaimed combination of world-class performances and compelling dialogue from the Maestro, Cal Phil brings the music into contemporary context and illuminates the connections between diverse musical genres. These Sunday afternoon concerts, unrivalled in their appeal, allow you to beat summer’s heat in style.

This year, we’ve made the concerts even more special! Join Maestro Vener and special guests for a lively pre-concert chat during our Talks with the Maestro sessions in BP Hall at 1:00 pm prior to each concert. It’s not a lecture, it’s a conversation where you have the opportunity to ask any question about music you wish to ask. Plus, you’ll learn something special about the music on the bill for that afternoon.. Don’t miss this fabulous opportunity to make your musical experience even more vibrant.

Feel the fire and passion of great performances and the chilling excitement that true artistry brings—all at the incomparable Walt Disney Concert Hall. You won’t just hear the music, you’ll live it in a way you never even imagined possible!

July 12 2009
BASICALLY BEATLES — with The Fab Four!
A magical mystery tour of Beatles classics

The Fab Four bring the Beatles to the Cal Phil stage—plus organist
Phil Smith

The Fab Four bring the Beatles to the Cal Phil stage!  It’ll be Beatlemania at Walt Disney Concert Hall as Maestro Vener leads the orchestra—and our four special guests—through some of the greatest songs ever written.  What’s more, we’re giving the world premiere of Roger Allen Ward’s thrilling first symphony.  All that, plus a dramatic collaborative rendition of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d minor with organist Phil Smith on Walt Disney Concert Hall’s world-famous pipe organ!  With a lineup like that, you know you must be glad.

July 26, 2009
SWORDS & CHIVALRY
music of courage, bravery and romance

Pipe & drum band Cabar Feidh, back by popular demand—plus
pianist Robert Thies

Nothing stirs the emotions like a magical adventure, so the Maestro has put together a program of swashbuckling classics ranging from films, to the Broadway, concert and opera stages. Live the sweep and drama of great romances, fierce battles and magical love affairs.  You’ll be dazzled as pianist Robert Thies joins the orchestra for Rachmaninioff’s virtuosic and thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.  Plus, enjoy the triumphant strains of Highland Pipe & drum band Cabar Feidh, back on the Cal Phil stage by popular demand. 

August 9, 2009
MOVIE MAGIC
cinema's greatest scores

with violinist Armen Anassian

Cal Phil brings the magic of the silver screen to our orchestra stage…only, this time, it’s not Sly Stallone or Gene Kelly who play the leads, but the music itself.  Hear highlights from the scores that made these films classics.  Our stars include virtuoso violinist Armen Anassian and composers like John Williams, Howard Shore, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Rudolph Steiner.  Leading this exceptional cast is Cal Phil’s superstar, Maestro Vener!

August 23, 2009
BROADWAY'S BEST
Magical moments from theater’s greatest shows

singers Khori Dastoor and Danny Gurwin join Cal Phil for your
favorite songs.

Bunker Hill comes alive as singers Khori Dastoor and Danny Gurwin join Maestro Vener Cal Phil for your favorite songs from your favorite hit shows.  It’s a trip through blockbuster after blockbuster and a whole army of Tony awards as we survey music from throughout the history of the musical theatre.  Ms. Dastoor took down the house last year with her rendition of Bernstein’s Glitter And Be Gay from Candide—don’t miss her performance this year.  Mr. Gurwin is known for his Broadway roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Full Monty, Little Woman and Kismet. No doubt about it, the stars will be shining as brightly as the gleaming panels of Walt Disney Concert Hall’s dazzling exterior.

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