Jeffrey Kahane Makes First Appearance Aa Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate

Jeffrey Kahane makes his first appearance in his new role as Conductor Laureate of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) with the West Coast premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s Violin Concerto, featuring LACO Concertmaster Margaret Batjer, on Saturday, March 17, 8 pm, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and Sunday, March 18, 2018, 7 pm, at UCLA’s Royce Hall.  A co-commission by LACO, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Milwaukee Orchestra, Jalbert’s work was written for the concertmasters of the three orchestras.  Kahane, who stepped down as LACO Music Director in June 2017 after a 20-year tenure, also conducts Respighi’s Three Botticelli Pictures, a vivid aural impression of three of the Renaissance master’s famous paintings, and continues LACO’s multi-year exploration of Haydn’s famed 12 London symphonies with Symphony No. 99 in E-Flat Major, the seventh in the sequence.