SERIES BEGINS WITH PROKOFIEV’S CINDERELLA
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2001 AT 11 AM

WITH CONDUCTOR MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA
AND HOST JOHN DE LANCIE, FEATURING BALLET DANCERS

Las actividades previas al concierto comienzan a las 10 de la mañana.

El programa «Toyota Symphonies for Youth» es posible gracias a una generosa subvención de Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

The 2001/2002 series of Toyota Symphonies for Youth concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic begins the twenty-first century with a fun-filled, new season of concerts sure to please children and their parents. The popular concerts, designed for children ages 5-11 and their families held on Saturday mornings, begin with Prokofiev’s Cinderella, conducted by Los Angeles Philharmonic Associate Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya on Saturday, November 3. Actor John de Lancie hosts. Pre-concert activities including arts, crafts, dance and storytelling, start at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at 10 AM, with the one-hour concert following at 11 AM.

The 2001/2002 season is the 7th year that Toyota has sponsored the series and includes four more Toyota Symphonies for Youth with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The concerts continue with a “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” on December 8, followed by “The Evolution of the Orchestra”, February 9, 2002, “Bam!” focussing on percussion, March 30, 2002 and “Shall We Dance?” on May 11, 2002.

TICKETS ($9-11) are extremely limited for all performances and are available at the Philharmonic’s Music Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets (Robinsons-May, Tower Records, Ritmo Latino, Tu Música, and selected Wherehouse locations), and by credit card phone order at 213/365-3500. For further information, please call 323/850-2000.

Families should plan to arrive early and spend the morning making music, meeting musicians, listening to stories, learning to sing and creating art projects --- all activities that introduce the day’s musical theme. The concert celebrates Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella with excerpts from the ballet performed by dancers from the Aeolian Ballet Theater. Actor John de Lancie, best known as “Q” on Star Trek, The Next Generation, returns for a fourth season as the audience’s guide to the concert, which will feature close-up images of the musicians projected on a screen above the orchestra.

El programa «Toyota Symphonies for Youth» cuenta con el apoyo adicional de las siguientes entidades: la Fundación Ann y Gordon Getty, las Fundaciones William Randolph Hearst, Morgan Stanley, la Comisión de las Artes del Condado de Los Ángeles, el Departamento de Asuntos Culturales de la ciudad de Los Ángeles y el Consejo de las Artes de California, un organismo estatal. El programa «Toyota Symphonies for Youth» cuenta, en parte, con el apoyo de la Comisión de las Artes del Condado de Los Ángeles.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Associate Conductor MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA is Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony, a title he holds with both the Eugene Symphony in Oregon and the Auckland Phiharmonia in New Zealand. One of the most exciting young conductors in America, his active guest conducting schedule includes appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Quebec Symphony, the Puerto Rico Symphony, and the Mexico National Symphony. Festival appearances include Grant Park, Tanglewood, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian in France, the Domaine Forget International Festival in Quebec, and the Musicarchitettura International Festival in Italy. Born in 1968 in Lima, Peru, Miguel Harth-Bedoya holds degrees in conducting from The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School.

La carrera delpresentador JOHN DE LANCIEabarca el teatro, el cine y la televisión, ámbitos en los que ha demostrado ser un actor, director y productor destacado. Ha aparecido en casi 100 series de televisión, entre las que destaca su papel más conocido como «Q», el molesto adversario de Picard , en *Star Trek: La nueva generación*. Es copropietario, junto con Leonard Nimoy, de la productora Alien Voices, que ha producido proyectos para Simon & Schuster, TNT, New Line, The Sci-Fi Channel y California School Systems. La pasión del Sr. de Lancie por la música comenzó cuando era niño en Filadelfia, donde asistía a los conciertos de los sábados por la noche en la Academia de Música de Filadelfia. Ha actuado como locutor y narrador con la Filarmónica de Nueva York, la Orquesta de Filadelfia y la Sinfónica de Milwaukee.

EDITORS - PLEASE NOTE:

PROKOFIEV’S CINDERELLA

Toyota Symphonies for Youth

Saturday, November 3, 2001 at 11AM (pre-concert activities begin at 10AM)

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (at 1st and Grand Ave.)

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

Aeolian Ballet Theater

John de Lancie, host

PROKOFIEV Excerpts from Cinderella

TICKETS ($9-11) are extremely limited for all performances and are available at the Philharmonic’s Music Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets (Robinsons-May, Tower Records, Ritmo Latino, Tu Música, and selected Wherehouse locations), and by credit card phone order at 213/365-3500. For further information, please call 323/850-2000.

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Elizabeth Hinckley, 323/850-2047; David Barber, 323/850-2023