Gustavo Dudamel

Refik Anadol Does Fascinating Things With Art and Technology — Like His Plan to Project Video Onto Disney Hall

L.A. Phil's Gala, From Dudamel to Dancing to Classical Legend John Adams: Our Review

Less than a week after the L.A. Dance Project made its debut in Walt Disney Concert Hall, dance returned there Thursday night, this time at the invitation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its annual gala. Do two events make a trend? I believe three's the magic number needed to declare something ... More >>

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The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, August 13 Grandaddy THE FONDA In the year 2000, a group of schlubs from the California meth- and cow-town of Modesto released the perfect record to ring in the new millennium. It was called The Sophtware Slump, and its sun-dappled, spacey, sad-faced robot-pop seemed to capture so much about ... More >>

Rigoletto - Hollywood Bowl - August 12, 2012

Rigoletto The Hollywood Bowl 8/12/12 Better than... the guy outside the Bowl with a dog puppet doing a one-man a capella version of Handel's Hallelujah chorus. Most American orchestras coast during their summer season with puffery such as symphonic arrangements of Pink Floyd, Broadway show tunes, ... More >>

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

5 Gustavo Dudamel TV Cameos We'd Like to See

Floppy-haired conductor Gustavo Dudamel made an appearance on Sesame Street last week to teach Elmo a musical thing or two about a musical thing or two -- including the definition of the word stupendous. You know what would be truly stupendous? For the affable maestro to show up on some other TV sho ... More >>

Mahlerpalooza: Gustavo Dudamel Makes L.A. the Mahler Capital of North America

See also: *Mahlerpalooza: Our Tips for Getting Through Gustavo Dudamel's Nine Concerts in 22 Days *Stravinsky vs. Schoenberg: Who Was More Gangsta? Did you have a WTF moment Saturday night, a tug towards the ocean followed by a sensation of heaviness pulling downward for a second? What you felt ... More >>

Tricia Tunstall's Changing Lives: A Book on Dudamel, El Sistema and the Revolution in Music Education

There's not much talk about music education these days. With all the budget crises, education cuts and Republican candidates --  none of whom seem terribly supportive of the arts -- you couldn't be blamed for thinking music programs aren't exactly a social priority right now. So you might be su ... More >>

Music Picks: X, Lucinda Williams, Jackie DeShannon, Fujiya & Miyagi

Also, Dengue Fever, Jessie Baylin, Reigning Sound, Black Bananas and others

Mahlerpalooza: Our Tips for Getting Through Gustavo Dudamel's Nine Concerts in 22 Days

UE Mahler Interviews: Gustavo Dudamel from Universal Edition on Vimeo. In Venezuela, they are called huevos, and Gustavo "The Dude" Dudamel, conductor of the LA Philharmonic, has a great big pair of them. Starting tomorrow at Disney Hall, Dudamel will attempt to do what no conductor has ever done b ... More >>

The Classical Music Concerts We're Most Looking Forward to in 2012

5. Cage 2012 Southwest Chamber Music, Japanese American National Museum, March 3-4 Hey L.A., where's the love for your native son, John Cage? It's the 100th anniversary of his birth next year, and the only party in town is being thrown by Southwest Chamber Music. The opening Cage 2012 concert sho ... More >>

The Top 5 Hollywood Bowl Classical Concerts to Enjoy While Stoned: Smoke a Bowl Before The Bowl

Look at all those trees, dude. ​By Christian Hertzog Marijuana has a well-deserved reputation for being a recreational substance enjoyed at live concerts of rock, rap, and--especially--reggae. Should anyone be surprised that some folks enjoy a righteous hit of cheeba before attending a classi ... More >>

Music Picks: Tinariwen, Colbie Caillat, A.R. Rahman, Best Coast

Also, Monopoly, David Bazan, Gravespawn and others

Eat This Now: Churros at Churros Calientes

T. Nguyen​ We love Salina's Churro Truck and Mr. Churro and other wonderful places that offer Mexican-style churros, but every once in a while, our sweet tooth gets a hankering for the type of churros you'd find served in parts of Spain and Venezuela. These are a smaller, a bit more delicate ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Phair, DeVotchKa, Peter Murphy, Fergus & Geronimo

Also Whitechapel, Motorhead, Juanes and others

LA Phil's #Ask Gustavo: Celebrity Edition!

Anika Noni Rose will play a more innocent vixen this weekend​The city of Los Angeles loves the wild-haired wizard of Walt Disney Concert Hall, conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The LA Phil knows the gold mine they got with their music director--he made even us classical-music commoners stop yawning a ... More >>

UP CLOSE AND DUDAMEL

More Fun With The 99 Cent Chef: Pink's Hot Dogs Gustavo Dudamel

Thanks to Billy Vasquez, also known as The 99 Cent Chef, for finding a way to combine two of L.A.'s current obsessions -- Pink's Hot Dogs and Gustavo Dudamel -- into one neat hybrid, happily scored to Gershwin for good measure. Vasquez, who does post-production effects for film, tv and commericials ... More >>

Tonight: Circa Survive, Cold War Kids, Eels, Rademacher, PB Wolf, William Fitzsimmons

Circa Survive​When vocalist Anthony Green broke away from the Orange County screamo outfit Saosin six years ago, it didn't look like the best of career moves. Saosin was a rising star on the post-hardcore scene and poised to sign a major-label contract; Green was headed back home to Pennsylvan ... More >>

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

WE LOVE YOU HOLLYWOOD BOWL!

Last Night: Only a Neck Injury Can Stop Gustavo "Electrico!" Dudamel (Also, Alisa Weilerstein with the L.A. Phil)

Mathew Imaging​Last night at Disney Hall, while conducting Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B minor with soloist Alisa Weilerstein, Gustavo Dudamel pulled a muscle in his neck and was unable to return for the second half of the program. Deborah Borda, president of the L.A. Philharmonic Association, ... More >>

OKAY BY ME IN AMERICA

The Hollywood Bowl Announces Its 2010 Schedule

​Is it that time already? Yes, for the 89th time, it is. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association just announced the line-up for the 2010 Hollywood Bowl season, and despite its age, the outdoor beauty will stage a few firsts: Gustavo Dudamel's first Bowl subscription concerts as music direct ... More >>

Venezuelan Youth Orchestra Doc Screens Tonight at MOLAA

For those curious about the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra that has produced the likes of Gustavo Dudamel, Alberto Arvelo's documentary Tocar y Luchar screens tonight at Long Beach's Museum of Latin American Art. Venezuelan Youth Orchestra "Mambo"

Dudamel; Modine: Saving Classical — and the Alpacas?

Dudamel in Los Angeles and El Sistema a Huge Success

We sat perhaps 100 to 150 feet away from Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl last night, watching as he whipped his wiry, pale-skinned little body around the stage like dancer whose DNA somehow got mixed up with Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek.I wanted to snack on my brie-and-figs picni ... More >>

Busy LA Weekend: Dudamel, Yorke, Byrne, Eagle Rock Music Fest, Faithfull

Busy weekend of music ahead, one of the most action-packed of the season. We, in fact, are being pulled in about six different directions. Tonight, if you're lucky and/or connected, you may be at Thom Yorke and band's first ever show, which is at the Echoplex. Across town in Pasadena, David Byrn ... More >>

Dudamel: The Great Brown Hope

L.A. Phil conductor must inspire Latinos, if it's not too late

L.A. Phil's Gustavo Dudamel: Being a Brilliant and Inspiring Conductor Isn't Enough

Not when you're tasked with saving classical music

Bravo, Gustavo!

A new era dawns with outsized expectation

LA Phil to Bring Together Kronos Quartet, Matmos, Terry Riley, Mike Einziger as Part of John Adams-curated West Coast: Left Coast Festival

Chart describing rough schedule of the Kronos Quartet, Matmos, Terry Riley, Mike Einziger concert at the Disney We recently had lunch with Johanna Rees and Lisa Bellamore from the LA Philharmonic, and over the course of the meal the two outlined the next half year of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl ... More >>

Classical Pick: Gustavo Dudamel and L.A. Phil Present "Four Last Songs"

Soprano Christine Brewer sings Strauss; plus, works by Beethoven and Ligeti

Strauss at Sunset

Dudamel directs Christine Brewer in "Four Last Songs"

And When the Dust Had Settled ...

Dudamel bows out; Europa Galante's D-minor Concerto; Gershon chorales Disney

Fantastique Shake-Up

Plus, Opus 130 and knowing when to clap

The Year of Duda

The best classical events of 2007

The New Guy: Gustavo Dudamel

Strength in numbers

Umbrella Held High

Ernest Fleischmann

Scouting Gustavo

Daniel Rothmuller

What the cellist saw

Passages

The coming of Gustavo Dudamel

Mastery Old & Young

More or Less

An Annual Alphabet

The Year In Night Music

Star Tracks