LACO: Shankar Plays Shankar

LACO’s 2022-23 season ends by celebrating traditions global and local. GRAMMY-nominated sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, performs his Concerto No. 3. The concert premieres a homegrown work by L.A.-based composer Marc Lowenstein, the final Sound Investment premiere of the season, as well as takes audiences on a brief excursion to Spain with lively performances of de Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos and Bizet’s Symphony No. 1 in C major.  

Program:
Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat): Suite No. 1
Ravi Shankar: Concerto No. 3 for Sitar
Marc Lowenstein: Sound Investment Commission, World Premiere
Georges Bizet: Symphony No.1 in C major

Artists:
Jaime Martíin, Conductor
Anoushka Shankar: Sitar