January 24, 2000   DAVID ZINMAN CONDUCTS LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC IN ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM, February 24, 25 AND 26 AT THE DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION

Yefim Bronfman Plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 American conductor David Zinman concludes a two-week engagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic leading the Orchestra in an all-Beethoven program in the Performing Arts Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Thursday and Saturday, February 24 and 26, at 8 p.m., and Friday, February 25 at 1:30 p.m. The renowned Russian-born pianist Yefim Bronfman is the program’s featured soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 4. The Egmont Overture and Symphony No. 7 complete the program. Tickets ($15 - $70) are now on sale at the Philharmonic’s Performing Arts Center box office; all Ticketmaster outlets (Robinsons-May, Tower Records, Ritmo Latino, and selected Wherehouse locations), and by credit card phone order at 213/365-3500. Tickets are also available on-line at www.laphil.org. Groups of 10 or more may be eligible for a 20% discount; call 323/850-2107.  A limited number of $15 tickets may be available on the day of the performance for full time students at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion box office 2 hours prior to the performance. Valid identification is required; one ticket per person. For further information, please call 323/850-2000. Beethoven wrote the Egmont Overture in 1809/1810 as incidental music for a play by Goethe about the heroic exploits of Egmont, who fought to liberate the Netherlands from Spanish domination. He led the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 in Vienna in December 1808, on the same program with his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. Although the concert was lengthy, reportedly under-rehearsed, and held in a freezing-cold theatre, the Piano Concerto won that audience’s affection and has remained a concert-hall favorite ever since. Beethoven called the Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 one of his best. A huge success at its premiere in 1813, the symphony’s powerful and energetic fast movements earned critical reviews, but it was the stately slow movement that the audience demanded to hear again as an encore. DAVID ZINMAN, Music Director of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1997, also holds the posts of Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich. A conducting student of Pierre Monteux, Zinman made his American podium debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1967. He has since become one of America’s most admired conductors, both for his success in raising the artistic level and international reputation of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra during his 12-year tenure as Music Director (1984-96), and for his guest performances with leading orchestras here and abroad. He has also held the top posts with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra’s Viennese Sommerfest.