<b>Photos:</b> Ernest Fleischmann | 1924 - 2010

Ernest Fleischmann, managing director of the L.A. Philharmonic, leads a moment of silence in tribute to Dorothy Chandler, who died two days earlier on July 6, before the beginning of the opening night concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Ernest Fleischmann, general director of the L.A. Philharmonic, retired after 29 years as head of the orchestra, which played part of the season at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, where this photo was taken. “My attachment, my love for the Philharmonic remains ... but I’ve been here long enough,” said Fleischmann, who joined the Phil in 1969.
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Ernest Fleischmann, third from left, is surrounded by, from left, architect Frank Gehry, Nancy Mehta, with her husband, conductor Zubin Mehta, and Mona Mapel during a reception in the courtyard of the Music Center after a gala pension fund benefit concert at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
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Participants in the gala pension-fund benefit concert pay tribute to former Philharmonic Executive Director Ernest Fleischmann, right, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. From left are Mstislav Rostropovich, Zubin Mehta and Gundula Janowitz.
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