The Rite of Spring With Dudamel

Dudamel pairs The Rite of Spring with The Firebird suite, another of Stravinsky’s ballets, filled with romance and magic that concludes with melodic majesty. Opening the program is the US premiere of LA Phil Creative Chair John Adams’s Frenzy. Inspired by the feeling of processing the modern world and its incessant digital drip of news, Frenzy is rhythmically driven in its own right—unwinding an aura of agita through a hall of mirrors into “a tense nocturnal chase, with a touch of film noir glamor” (Daily Telegraph).