Gustavo Dudamel conducts his first Rite of Spring with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first series of concerts of the 2012-13 LA Phil season this weekend. Join us here as Classical KUSC and NPR Music bring you the Sunday afternoon performance beginning at 2 p.m. The program will open with Ravel’s tender Pavane pour une infante défunte and will feature the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Steven Stucky’s Symphony. Gustavo and the LA Phil will bring the performances to a close with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, an icon of modernity in music.

KUSC's Brian Lauritzen and Alan Chapman are your hosts for this broadcast.

Program

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Stucky: Symphony (world premiere, LA Phil co-commission)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring