The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra launched its 2009/10 season with new Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. Taking the reins at the Inaugural Concert and Gala at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the twenty-eight-year-old is the 11th Music Director of the 90-year-old orchestra.

The evening opens with the world premier of ‘City Noir’, a 35-minute, three movement symphony: the latest work by John Adam, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Composer Adams described City Noir as “…a symphony inspired by the peculiar ambience and mood of Los Angeles’ ‘noir’ films, especially those produced in the late forties and early fifties. My music is an homage not necessarily to the film music of that period but rather to the overall aesthetic of the era.” The Inaugural Concert also features Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 1 in D major (‘Titan’).