Los Angeles Philharmonic

From a bird in flight to the astrological personalities in our solar system to the vast mysteries of deep space, Leonard Slatkin presides over a night that invites audiences to look upward at the Southern California sky in wonder. The Hollywood Bowl was a family tradition for Los Angeles native Slatkin who grew up watching LA Phil performances from the benches. That family tradition gains a new chapter as Slatkin leads the orchestra in his son Daniel’s Voyager 130, which was inspired by the Golden Record on NASA’s Voyager spacecraft that carries Earth’s music to the edge of interstellar space. In one of his final performances as LA Phil Principal Concertmaster, Martin Chalifour performs the ethereal and fluttering violin solo of Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ beloved A Lark Ascending. Finally, Slatkin leads the orchestra through the captivating melodies and varied soundscapes of Gustav Holst’s The Planets.