Alternative Energies at Segerstorm Concert Hall

Mason Bates electronic/orchestral mix unapologetically launches the concert into another sound-world. Lutos?awski’s superbly inventive and virtuosic piano concerto follows. But the crowning jewel of the evening is John Adams’ colossal minimalistic creation, Harmonielehre. Calling for an orchestra of more than a hundred musicians, the piece gyrates, swoons, explodes, and pulsates effortlessly, sometimes dramatically, as an apt finale to this groundbreaking acoustical drama.