The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC), the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., present the Los Angeles edition of ‘Night of Ideas’ (La Nuit des Idées)!

This free marathon of talks, pop-up performances, music, and film screenings featuring thinkers, artists and athletes celebrates the theme of ‘Being Alive.’ This can be understood as a command, a call to awareness, an action, and a commitment. What is being alive? What is our place in the living world? How does ‘Being Alive’ impose on us to take action? These will be the questions at the heart of the 2020 ‘Night of Ideas.’

More tickets for this event will be released soon-stay tuned!

January 16 & 17, 2020: Experience vibrant French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm and the LA Phil for Bach, Handel and Telemann. Join CODA, the LA Phil’s group for young music fans, to mix and mingle with other young fans of the LA Phil, and orchestra members, at an exclusive after-party after the January 17 performance and get access to discounted tickets.

January 24-26, 2020: Hear French contralto Nathalie Stutzmann lead the LA Phil's Beethoven with pianist Emanuel Ax! Emanuel Ax will apply his consummate artistry to Beethoven’s mighty and heroic C-minor concerto, his only one in a minor key.

January 31-February 2, 2020: Finish off January with an All-Strauss concert featuring cellist Gautier Capuçon. Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan will lead the LA Phil in two prime examples of tone poems by Richard Strauss, one about the legendary Spanish knight Don Quixote – featuring one of the world’s leading cellists, Gautier Capuçon, as the irrepressible dreamer – and, though Strauss denied it, the other work about the composer himself!