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Founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. with Walter Henry Rothwell as its Conductor , it played its first concert in the same year, eleven days after its first rehearsal.

Subsequent principal conductors have included Artur Rodzinski ( 1929 - 33 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1933 - 39 ), Eduard Van Beinum (1956-59), Zubin Mehta (1962-78), Carlo Maria Giulini (1978-84) and André Previn (1985-89). From 1992, Esa-Pekka Salonen has been its music director and chief conductor.

Since its founding in 1919, the LA Philharmonic has played at least one concert a year in its "sister city", Santa Barbara, California , presented by the Community Arts Music Association (CAMA).

The LA Philharmonic is best known to television and movie-going audiences as the performers behind the music in the pilot film to '' Battlestar Galactica '', composed by Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson .


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