December 27
Tchaikovsky & Pereira

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony embodies a profound journey, rife with dramatic orchestral color, tumultuous emotions, and passionate themes of fate and triumph. Percussionist-turned-conductor Gustavo Gimeno leads the symphony after guiding the orchestra through the suspenseful brass-filled suite of love and obsession from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo before a world premiere spotlighting two of the LA Phil’s own when Principal Percussionist Matthew Howard performs the new concerto by Principal Timpanist and composer Joseph Pereira.

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Matthew Howard, percussion