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• Classical music e-cards, with a philanthropic twist

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
  Two children enjoy a winter sled ride that takes them down the contours of a larger-than-life stringed instrument. In the background, the Los Angeles Philharmonic plays Mozarts Flute Concerto in D. The animated holiday e-card is suitably festive but it offers more than just a pretty picture. Its part of a ...
  22 hours ago

• Esa-Pekka Salonen among classical Grammy nominees

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
    Amid all of the Grammy hubbub this evening surrounding Beyonce, the Black Eyed Peas and other mega-stars, its easy to forget that classical music is an important part of the annual nominations, accounting for 13 categories and spanning the field from orchestral works to opera and beyond. True, you wont likely ...
  1 day ago

• Music Review: Frank Zappa Green Umbrella concert at Disney Hall

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
  Clearly, the West Coast, Left Coast festival would have been remiss without nodding to Frank Zappa, one of Los Angeles greatest and least easily categorized musical mavericks, whose work was the star of Tuesday’s Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Then again, the irreverent, witty and determinedly ...
  2 days ago

• Slatkin delays return to podium again

  
  Culture Club — Authority: 457
  St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conductor emeritus Leonard Slatkin, who suffered a heart attack while conducting in Rotterdam on November 1, was overly ambitious in his plans to return to the podium. Slatkin, 65, had originally intended to conduct his present band, the…
  3 days ago

• Leonard Slatkin cancels Disney Hall appearances for December

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
  Leonard Slatkin isnt in the clear yet as far as his health is concerned. Earlier this month, the conductor experienced a heart attack while conducting a concert in the Netherlands. According to a report , he felt chest pains while on the podium and later collapsed backstage. He subsequently underwent surgery and has ...
  4 days ago

• Program note

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 133
  By now your favorite critic was planning to have reported on two events (Dudamel conducting the L.A. Phil in music by Salonen, Adams and Harrison; and L.A. Opera’s production of “The Barber of Seville,” starring Gunn, DiDonato and Florez) held over the weekend. But circumstances intervened. On Saturday, a ...
  4 days ago

• Gustavo Dudamels West Coast, Left Coast concert

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
  In politics, Californians still quarrel over immigration issues. The arts know better. Ours is a state made with the critical input of others. And if our music is characterized by one thing, that is its openness to outside influences. We look in all directions. To scan the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “West ...
  4 days ago

• Music review: Terry Riley launches West Coast, Left Coast Festival

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
  “IF THERE IS NO SEDUCTION, THERE IS NO MUSIC.” The capitalized sentiment leapt off the page in Terry Riley’s program note for “Eureka!” the late-night opening event for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s West Coast, Left Coast festival Saturday night. And thus -- after more than two hours of regimented ...
  1 week ago

• Top concerts this week

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 133
  Click here to view the embedded video. Berlin Philharmonic Led by Sir Simon Rattle, the world’s greatest orchestra, at least by some estimations, returns to Disney Hall with a pair of programs devoted, though not exclusively, to Brahms. The first pairs Arnold Schoenberg’s vivid orchestration of Brahms’ ...
  1 week ago

• A New Musical Marriage in Los Angeles

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 156
  The conductor Gustavo Dudamel rehearsing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in his new capacity as music director.
  1 week ago

• Music review: Gustavo Dudamel and Gil Shaham play Mozart and Berg

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
  The great 20th century conductor Bruno Walter claimed he wasn’t ready to conduct Mozart until he was 50. This refined, unfussy musician believed the heaven-sent symphonies of a young composer who died at 35 were wasted on the young, with their immature tendencies to romanticize, their childish swagger, their puppy ...
  1 week ago

• Gustavo Dudamel: Mozart man

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 133
  CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE SLIDE SHOW   Review : The 28-year-old conductor leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a pair of Mozart symphonies and, with Gil Shaham, Berg’s Violin Concerto. The Orange County Register , Nov. 20, 2009. SEE SLIDE SHOW   Gustavo Dudamel, who led his third program, and ninth concert, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gustavo Dudamel Brings Art and Soul to L.A.

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 143
  Gustavo Dudamel has wrapped up his first month as the new conductor and musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is the newest star in Hollywood.
  3 weeks ago

• Music review: Dudamel conducts Schubert and Berio

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
  Thursday night, Gustavo Dudamel , the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new music director, ended the second program of his current monthlong residency at Walt Disney Concert Hall with an extravagantly “finished” performance of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony. This beloved two-movement torso sounded so ...
  3 weeks ago

• A few minutes with Dudamel

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 438
  Here’s Venezuelan-born conductor Gustavo Dudamel, chatting with Jian Ghomeshi on Q on CBC Radio One . Dudamel talks about his musical education in Venezuela, and his new gig with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among other topics. Listen to the complete show (If you choose this option, check out the intense, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hollywood Swoons Over That Hair, That Baton

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Gustavo Dudamel, maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, during a rehearsal with the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles.
  3 weeks ago

• Hollywood Swoons Over That Hair, That Baton

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  He has only a handful of concerts behind him, but the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 28-year-old Venezuelan maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, has had his face plastered across town.
  3 weeks ago

• on auditioning

  
  daily observations — Authority: 132
  Well, it’s been quiet here at the blog for some time, so I thought it might be a good thing to tell you what I’ve been up to.  I went down to Los Angeles this past Sunday to take the audition for the 3rd chair viola position (Assistant principal) of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Monday.  I didn’t win.  Not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dudamel tackles Verdis Requiem

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 708
    Gustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdi’s Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic . All Los Angeles, of course, knows that last month Dudamel began his tenure with a free event at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gustavo Dudamel unleashes a potent Verdi Requiem, or, What else did you expect?

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 133
  CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW SLIDE SHOW   Review . The Orange County Register , Nov. 6, 2009.  Heretofore, Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new music director, has appeared with the orchestra for a week or two at a time. Thursday night marked the beginning of his most extended period with the group to ...
  4 weeks ago

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