MOVEMENT(S)!

Music @ The Wallis is generously made possible by Terri and Jerry Kohl

LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Lina González-Granados, CONDUCTOR
John Holiday, COUNTERTENOR

Z. KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta
CARLOS SIMON: The After Party! WORLD PREMIERE
GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Elegía Andina (Andean Elegy)
M. DE FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No.1

We open the LACO season at The Wallis with MOVEMENT(S)!, a high-voltage orchestral celebration of dance led by LA Opera’s first Colombian-American conductor, Lina González-Granados, and featuring one of today’s leading countertenors, John Holiday. Four distinctive composers come together in one great program that reveals how music and movement have always been interconnected.

The evening opens with Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, drawing on the rhythms and colors of Hungarian folk tradition. Holiday then takes the stage for the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s The After Party!, a tribute to the enduring legacy of Black American music and the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance. A moment of reflection follows in Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegía Andina, where stillness becomes its own kind of movement, and grief finds an expressive voice that reminds us dance can hold sorrow as fully as celebration. The program closes with De Falla‘s Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 1, its flamenco rhythms proving once again that music was born to move.

Join us for an unforgettable night of music in motion.