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A Day in the Life

Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles | Tuesday, January 26, 2027 at 8:00 PM PST

When

Tuesday, January 26, 2027 at 8:00 PM PST

Where

Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles

Address

111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Admission

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Performers: LA Phil New Music Group (Ensemble); Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor); Yuval Sharon (director) In 80 minutes, the journey of an entire day is evoked in a musical trek by LA Phil Creative Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and renowned director Yuval Sharon. A musical program that journeys between the seemingly banal and the profound—from the musique concrète of an electric toothbrush and the background music at a happy hour to a traditional chamber work conducted by Salonen—illuminates how sound and music shape our days. Salonen becomes an “everyman conductor” like Jaques Tati’s beloved character Monsieur Hulot, and in a similarly whimsical but melancholy way, the program invites the audience to ask themselves: • How can one day stand in for a whole life? • What is happening (and what music is playing) when “nothing” is happening? Why don’t we pay attention to it? • How does music let us be in two places at once: our physical surroundings and the place imagined by the music? A Day in the Life weaves a ritualistic cycle from new and familiar music, projections, and special staging that shine a light on the mundane, repetitive, and—sometimes—obsessive behaviors that make up our daily lives and highlights how sometimes even the most commonplace routines can lead to transcendent moments.