Trailblazers: Martín + Brahms + Bauer

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 2024/25 Orchestral Series launches with TRAILBLAZERS: MARTÍN + BRAHMS + BAUER, featuring Music Director Jaime Martín conducting Brahms’ sunny yet wistful Symphony No. 2 in D major on Saturday, October 19, 7:30 pm, at Glendale’s Alex Theatre, and Sunday, October 20, 4 pm, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Additionally, LACO presents the program on Monday, October 21, 2024, 7:30 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre, appearing courtesy of the Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara on its prestigious International Series to open the organization’s 106th concert season.

Guest artist Thomas Bauer, a baritone who sings with “sheer virile force” and “emotional intensity” (Opernglas), is spotlighted on Mahler’s deeply personal song cycle Songs of a Wayfarer, a masterpiece arranged for chamber orchestra by Schoenberg.

Martín begins the program with Haydn’s sixth symphony, “Morning,” the first in a triptych of early Haydn symphonies portraying the times of day.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is located at 9390 N Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Alex Theatre is located at 216 N. Brand Boulevard, Glendale, CA 91203. The Granada Theatre is located at 1214 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

For information and tickets ($40-$164 at Alex Theatre and the Wallis; $41-$123 at Granada Theatre), please visit www.laco.org or call 213 221 3920.