By Charlize Althea Garcia, Oct. 31, 2023 Familiar versus unfamiliarity. A push-and-pull program from the LA Philharmonic interposed the audience into a sandwich of musical ideas with pieces from Sibelius, Swan Lake and Saad Haddad Oct. 20. Oftentimes one listens to music to forget, to escape or feel comforted by the universality of human emotion.