The program opens with a performance of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández as the soloist. The second act offers up Romeo and Juliet.

As Millepied did at Walt Disney Concert Hall, this ballet will not be confined to the stage at the Hollywood Bowl. His company of dancers will perform in and around the Bowl. There will also be cameras following their actions regardless of where they go.

It should be noted that while the Walt Disney Concert Hall performance offered the complete ballet, the Hollywood Bowl performance is listed as the Romeo and Juliet Suite. It is unknown how much of the ballet’s music will be performed.

The possibilities for exploration by Millepied and his dancers seems far greater at the Bowl than in the confines of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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All photos courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.

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Muhly has assembled a program that includes his collaboration with Thomas Bartlett on Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music. This album was released in 2018 by Nonesuch Records. It features nine songs the two wrote together and three transcriptions of traditional Gamelan music.

Philip Glass has long been an inspiration for Muhly. As part of this program he will offer his own interpretations of some of the composer’s lesser-known works. These will be performed with Nadia Sirota on the viola and Caroline Shaw on vocals and violin, Alex Sopp on flute, Lisa Kaplan on piano, Lisa Liu on violin, Patrick Belaga on cello and Wade Culbreath on percussion.

Rumors are circulating about some special guests who will be part of this concert. Since Muhly has worked with Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Benjamin Millepied and more, who could they be?

I’m hoping that one or more of his operas, Two Boys, Dark Sides or Marnie might be performed in Los Angeles sooner as opposed to later.  LA Opera? Beth Morrison Projects? REDCAT?

Until that happens, we’ll have Archives, Friends, Patterns which is our pick for Your Best Bet This Week in Culture.

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Photo of Nico Muhly by Heidi Solander/Courtesy of Cap UCLA

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You won’t be seeing the full ballet. Instead, select sequences are performed live in front of the audience. Those moments are captured by a video crew who follow the dancers in and around the nooks and crannies of Walt Disney Concert Hall (both inside and outside) where the dancing continues as the LA Philharmonic keeps playing Prokofiev’s wonderful score.

Though it wasn’t the easiest of experiences for the composer (as laid out in this New York Times article by Joshua Barone from earlier this year), it has become one of his best known works. The Joffrey Ballet was in town earlier this year performing the complete ballet in a production directed by Krzysztof Pastor.

An additional note: Grand is closed directly in front of the Walt Disney Concert Hall for this year’s AIDS Walk. You’ll want to arrive a little earlier to navigate the inevitable additional traffic.

Photo by Benjamin Millepied

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Director Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project has the second of their two programs at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The three performances that begin on Thursday are part of their year-long Company-in-Residence with the Beverly Hills Venue.

There are four works on the bill for the spring program. They are:

“Duets” by Martha Graham

“Helix” by Justin Peck (which features music by Esa-Pekka Salonen)

“Sarabande” by Millepied

“Yag” by Ohad Naharin

If Millepied’s face seems familiar, he appeared in the film Black Swan, which he also choreographed. He also collaborated with Yuval Sharon (who is involved with Mahler’s Song of the Earth with the LA Philharmonic this week) on his project Invisible Cities. Millepied did the choreography for that unique opera presented at Union Station.

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