Live from Los Angeles

The final leg of Radio 3's trip across the US, celebrating the country's contribution to classical music.

Live from the heart of Studio City, just north of the Hollywood hills, Georgia Mann presents a musical portrait of the City of Angels. She takes a trip down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which has recognised many giants of the music world, from Leonard Bernstein to Duke Ellington, Ennio Morricone to Thelonious Monk, and delves into the archives of the Hollywood Bowl, the LA Philharmonic's summer home. She meets the Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who's spent much of his career with the orchestras of the West Coast, in LA and San Francisco, and this weekend conducts a series of concerts with the LA Phil and the LA Master Chorale. Members of the multi-Grammy Award-winning choir tell Georgia about their mission to create music with and for the diverse communities of LA.

Georgia links up with the composer and environmental activist Gabriella Smith, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and makes music which transports audiences into sonic landscapes inspired by the natural world.

Tapping into music of the movies, there's exclusive live performance in the studio from film music pianist-conductor-arranger Scott Dunn, one-time regular piano-duet partner with Richard Rodney Bennett, whose forthcoming album with the Britten Sinfonia celebrates the 'Hollywood Modernists'. And with the show being the morning after the star-studded 83rd Golden Globe Awards, Georgia reflects on this year's musical winners, with the best original score category including nominations for Max Richter, Hans Zimmer and Jonny Greenwood. She also meets the celebrated film composer Laura Karpman, Oscar shortlisted for her latest score, Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World.

And with LA-resident critic and author Alex Ross, Georgia explores the music of emigre composers like Stravinsky and Korngold who made LA their home.