Radio Broadcasts
Hollywood Bowl on Classical California KUSC
Ten of the Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts from the current Hollywood Bowl season will be broadcast on Classical California KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Night series, the station’s weekly spotlight on local concerts, beginning Sunday, August 20, 2023, at 7 PM.
This is the sixteenth year of the orchestra’s summer partnership with Southern California’s listener-sponsored classical music radio station. This broadcast series allows hundreds of thousands of KUSC listeners across Southern California to experience Hollywood Bowl performances each week.
Hosted and produced by KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen, the programs air weekly at 7 PM on Sundays from August 20 through October 22, and are also streamed online—on demand at the KUSC website—for one week immediately following the broadcast.
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2023 Schedule of Broadcasts
SoCal Sunday Nights at 7PM on Classical California KUSC
Programs and artists subject to change.
KUSC air date: August 20, 2023
Record date: July 11, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Leah Hawkins, soprano
Rihab Chaieb, mezzo-soprano
Mario Chang, tenor
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
VERDI Requiem
KUSC air date: August 27, 2023
Record date: July 20, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
PROKOFIEV Classical Symphony
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
PROKOFIEV Selections from Romeo and Juliet
KUSC air date: September 3, 2023
Record date: July 25, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Makoto Ozone, piano
Cindy McTEE Timepiece
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
KUSC air date: September 10, 2023
Record date: August 8, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Ryan Bancroft, conductor
Eric Lu, piano
Caroline SHAW Entr’acte
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
ELGAR Enigma Variations
KUSC air date: September 17, 2023
Record date: August 15, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Louis Langrée, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
KUSC air date: September 24, 2023
Record date: August 17, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Anna Rakitina, conductor
Sterling Elliott, cello
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
KUSC air date: October 1, 2023
Record date: August 29, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Simone Menezes, conductor
Clara-Jumi Kang, violin
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
KUSC air date: October 8, 2023
Record date: August 31, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gemma New, conductor
Nathan Cole, violin
Jessie MONTGOMERY Shift, Change, Turn
TCHAIKOVSKY (orch. MATTHEWS) Selections from The Seasons, Op. 37
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
KUSC air date: October 15, 2023
Record date: September 5, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Bomsori Kim, violin
MOZART Don Giovanni Overture
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish”
MOZART Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
KUSC air date: October 22, 2023
Record date: September 12, 2023
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Pacific Chorale
Robert Istad, Artistic Director
Adam SCHOENBERG Cool Cat (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Philip GLASS Violin Concerto No. 1
HOLST The Planets