Doctors Symphony Orchestra Opens New Season at Ebell, 11/12

Ivan Shulman, Music Director of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra LADSO, has announced the orchestra will kick off its 2010 - 2011 57th Annual Season, in their new permanent artistic home at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles.  During the course of LADSO's Inaugural Season in residence at The Ebell of Los Angeles, the orchestra will present two concert programs in the Grand Lounge, one on November 12, 2010, and another on March 20, 2011.  The season will culminate with a performance in the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Sunday, June 5, 2011.

Ivan Shulman, a General Surgeon by day, who is now beginning his third decade as LADSO'S Music Director, said:  "I can't imagine a more attractive place to be playing than at The Ebell of Los Angeles.  We've been looking for a home for years, and now we've found it."
 
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, President of The Ebell of Los Angeles, said: "The Ebell of Los Angeles is delighted to have established a special link with the distinguished Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra.  With it's steep history of musical presentations and performances, The Ebell continues its close alliance with the performing arts through its new association with this eminent group."

LADSO will open its 2010 - 2011 57th Annual Season on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. in the Grand Lounge of The Ebell of Los Angeles; 741 South Lucerne Boulevard between Wilshire Boulevard and 8th Street; Los Angeles, CA  90005.  The concert is supported, in part, by a grant from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.  The program will include the World Premiere of composer Karim Elmahmoudi's "Ancient Dreams," a work commissioned specifically for LADSO which is drawn from ancient mythology, universal themes and epic storytelling.
 
Elmahmoudi said:  "I selected concepts of mystery, struggle, and ascendancy.  Each concept is based on an ancient Egyptian papyrus entitled, The Dream Book, dating from the 19th Dynasty 13th Century B.C. that attempted to interpret dreams which were considered to be divine predictions of the future and were seen as messages from the gods that could foretell of good fortunes, or conversely, impending disasters.  In my musical score these stories are connected through a recurring theme that gradually and organically evolves from one section to the next."
 
            Other repertoire to be performed during the November 12th concert includes:  Robert Schumann's "Konzertstücke for 4 Horns and Orchestra, Op. 86" featuring Horn Soloists, Dylan Hart Guest Artist of Los Feliz; Ryan Ramsey Guest Artist of Anaheim; Matthew Lussier of Los Feliz; and Jacqueline Shannon Guest Artist of Hermosa Beach.  The rarely heard "Symphony No. 1 in G minor" written by renowned Russian composer, Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, will complete the bill.

Tickets for LADSO's November 12th concert are $15 each for General Admission; $12 each for Students and Seniors; and $10 each for Groups of five or more.  Tickets may be purchased by calling Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 at 1-800-838-3006 or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/133483.  Parking for the concert is $5 per car, or on the street.  For further information about this concert and other upcoming concerts in LADSO's 2010 - 2011 57th Annual Season, please visit the website, www.ladso.org.

Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra LADSO The Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest community orchestras in the United States with its origin in the health professions.  The mission of LADSO is to offer high-quality, affordable concerts to the diverse communities of Southern California, to support important medical causes with fundraising and to provide musical growth and fellowship for its performing members.  The performance of new music is also a high priority.  Recently the orchestra has performed premiere works by local composers such as Adrienne Albert, David Avshalomov, Karim Elmahmoudi and Andrew Feazelle.
 
LADSO was founded in 1953, by Dr. Reuben Straus, and was originally made up of around 35 doctors, dentists, veterinarians, nurses, other medical staff and two doctors' wives.  By the first concert, performed at the old Philharmonic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles in 1954, the membership had increased to over 70 members.  In subsequent years the orchestra went from strength to strength, playing to sold-out audiences and hosting guests including Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and comedian Jerry Lewis.
 
Over the years, other distinguished musicians who have appeared with the orchestra have included:  Jan Peerce, Henri Temianka, Gail Eichenthal, Felix Slatkin, Jeffrey Kahane, David Weiss, James Walker, Rich Capparela, Stephen Prutsman, Tamaki Kawakubo, Elizabeth Pitcairn, Sam Fischer, Rufus Choi, Cesar Romero and Paul Wiancko.
 
Ivan Shulman Music Director, Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles is now celebrating the beginning of his third decade as LADSO's Music Director.  He grew up in a musical family, having studied oboe with his father, the noted oboist Harry Shulman, who was the Principal Oboist of the NBC Symphony in New York under Arturo Toscanini.  In his youth, he spent time at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, in Marlboro, as well as in Aspen, where he studied orchestration with Gordon Hardy, composing with Charles Jones and Darius Milhaud, and began his conducting studies with Walter Susskind and Wolfgang Vacano.  As an oboist, he has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on tours to Mexico, Japan, Korea and Europe, as well as at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Hollywood Bowl.
 
 Shulman has served as LADSO Music Director since 1990, conducting the orchestra in Los Angeles, as well as in Santa Barbara and Santa Fe, New Mexico.  In 1994, he led The Combined forces of the LADSO and the University of California at San Francisco Orchestra in a highly acclaimed performance of Mahler's Sixth Symphony in San Francisco.  He has also appeared as Guest Conductor with the Beach Cities Symphony in Torrance, the West Coast Symphony in Santa Barbara, the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony, the Topanga Philharmonic, the West Hollywood Orchestra, the Dalhousie University Chorus in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra in Alaska.  He was also the conductor of the South Coast Reading Orchestra in Santa Barbara for four seasons.  With the Nevada State Opera, he has conducted performances of Don Giovanni and Carmen.  In 2001, he made his European conducting debut with the Pleven Philharmonic, in Bulgaria.
 
Shulman regularly serves as a judge for scholarship and musical competitions of the Young Musicians Foundation, the Westside Music Foundation and the Music Teachers Association of California.  He currently serves on the Music Advisory Board of the Young Musicians Foundation and was formerly on the Board of Directors of Chamber Music of Los Angeles.  In January 2008 he received a Masters of Music degree from California State University at Long Beach.  For his thesis on the second symphony of Charles Ives, he was awarded the outstanding graduate thesis award.  Subsequently, he has been on faculty of the Music Department at California State University at Long Beach.
 
           

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