A silenced voice cries out

A Czech child prodigy pianist who grew up to be a composer embracing modernist trends and communist politics, Erwin Schulhoff was arrested by the Nazis in 1941 and sent to a concentration camp in Wulzburg, Germany, where he died the next year. As part of the “Silenced Voices” series of music by composers whose works were banned by the Nazis, guest conductor James Conlon and the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform Schulhoff’s “Jazz Suite for Orchestra.” The program includes Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Outstanding 23-year-old American pianist Jonathan Biss will make his Philharmonic debut as soloist in the Mendelssohn concerto.

Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by James Conlon, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $15 to $125. (323) 850-2000.