Editing Los Angeles Philharmonic (section)

===1933–1950: Harvey Mudd rescues orchestra===
[[Otto Klemperer]] became Music Director in 1933, part of the large group of German emigrants fleeing Nazi Germany. He conducted many LA Phil premieres, and introduced Los Angeles audiences to new works by [[Igor Stravinsky]] and [[Arnold Schoenberg]]. The orchestra responded well to his leadership, but Klemperer had a difficult time adjusting to Southern California, a situation exacerbated by repeated manic-depressive episodes.
[[Image:Hollywood bowl and sign.jpg|left|thumb|Hollywood Bowl]]
The situation grew more challenging when founder William Andrews Clark died without leaving the orchestra an endowment. The newly formed Southern California Symphony Association was created with the goal to stabilize the orchestra's funding, with the association's president, [[Harvey Seeley Mudd|Harvey Mudd]], stepping up to personally guarantee Klemperer's salary. The Philharmonic's concerts at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] also brought in much needed revenue.<ref name="swed"/><ref name=pbs>{{cite web| url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/disneyhall/essay1.html| title=Los Angeles Philharmonic Story| first=Alan| last=Rich| work=The Los Angeles Philharmonic Inaugurates Walt Disney Concert Hall| publisher=[[PBS]]| access-date=May 3, 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807162206/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/disneyhall/essay1.html| archive-date=August 7, 2008}}</ref> As a result, the orchestra navigated the challenges of the [[Great Depression]] and remained intact.

After completing the 1939 summer season at the [[Hollywood Bowl]], Klemperer visited Boston, where he was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma. Brain surgery left him partially paralyzed in the face and with impaired hearing in his right ear. He went into a depressive state and was institutionalized. When he escaped, ''[[The New York Times]]'' ran a cover story declaring him missing. After he was found in New Jersey, a picture of him behind bars was printed in the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]''. He subsequently lost the post of Music Director, though he still would occasionally conduct the Philharmonic. He led some notable concerts, including the orchestra's premiere performance of Stravinsky's ''[[Symphony in Three Movements]]'' in 1946.<ref name="swed"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laphil.com/music/piece_detail.cfm?id=2458&bc=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127123407/http://www.laphil.com/music/piece_detail.cfm?id=2458&bc=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2013 |title=About the Piece: Symphony in Three Movements |first=Herbert |last=Glass |publisher=Los Angeles Philharmonic |access-date=May 20, 2008}}</ref>

[[John Barbirolli]] was offered the position of Music Director after his contract with the New York Philharmonic expired in 1942. He declined the offer and chose to return to England instead.<ref name=dnb>Kennedy, Michael. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30578 Barbirolli, Sir John (1899–1970)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808173734/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30578 |date=August 8, 2016 }}, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2009, (subscription required), accessed February 7, 2010.</ref> The following year, [[Alfred Wallenstein]] was chosen by Mudd to lead the orchestra. The former principal cellist of the [[New York Philharmonic]], he had been the youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic when it was founded in 1919. He turned to conducting at the suggestion of [[Arturo Toscanini]]. He had conducted the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl on a number of occasions and, in 1943, took over as Music Director.<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.american-music.org/publications/bullarchive/Meckna.html| first=Michael| last=Meckna| title=Alfred Wallenstein: An American Conductor at 100| journal=The Society for American Music Bulletin| volume=XXIV| issue=3| date=Fall 1998| access-date=June 12, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916121418/http://www.american-music.org/publications/bullarchive/Meckna.html| archive-date=September 16, 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref> Among the highlights of Wallenstein's tenure were recordings of concertos with fellow [[Angeleno]]s, [[Jascha Heifetz]] and [[Arthur Rubinstein]].<ref name="swed"/>