By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News

Two Los Angeles Philharmonic performances appear to have more lives than the proverbial feline.

A video of the Phil’s performance of George Gershwin’s An American in Paris from last October’s gala concert is now available for free on iTunes through March 26. This piece is from the concert that was telecast into movie theaters last Sunday; a truncated version of the program was shown on PBS stations late last year. Gustavo Dudamel conducted the orchestra.

Meanwhile, the “LA Phil Live” performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, which was telecast on Feb. 18 into U.S., Canadian and South American movie theaters, is crossing the Atlantic. It will be shown in six UK theaters beginning April 16.

Speaking of the Phil, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the orchestra’s former music director, will be one of 8,000 runners to carry the Olympic torch en route to London for this summer’s Olympic Games. Salonen, who is now principal conductor and artistic advisor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra (and the Phil’s music director laureate), will make his one-mile run on July 26, the penultamate day before the Games begin. (MORE)
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