LACO Presents Dimensions: Hadelich + Mendelssohn

Los Angeles County Orchestra’s 2023/24 Orchestral Series begins with Music Director Jaime Martín conducting the West Coast premiere of Dai Wei’s poignant Invisible Portals, a co-commission by LACO and the American Composer’s Orchestra, which filters musical traditions through the Chinese-born composer’s experimental lens. Inspired by her recent collaborations with local performers and musicians in Tibet and Yunnan province, Wei says of Invisible Portals, “The work involves musical elements such as throat singing, traditional ethnic dance music, contemporary resonance, and the propulsive rhythms of pop music. I want to create a multicultural and multidimensional conversation that goes beyond time and space, which ultimately takes me to the sanctuary I carry inside.” The program continues with Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich, whose performances reveal “something from a plane beyond ours” (The Washington Post), playing Mendelssohn’s transportive Violin Concerto in E minor, and concludes with Mozart’s eternal Symphony No. 41 in C major, “Jupiter.”