{"id":56914,"date":"2026-05-31T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56914"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:51:15","slug":"gustavo-dudamel-on-his-enduring-love-of-los-angeles-as-he-prepares-to-lead-the-ny-phil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56914","title":{"rendered":"Gustavo Dudamel on his enduring love of Los Angeles as he prepares to lead the NY Phil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/28\/5a325d38-cfdb-4b98-8d4b-6cb8ba567849_fc9ac620.jpg?itok=h5aNUryF&amp;v=1779980690\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">On the second weekend of May, Venezuelan conductor <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Gustavo Dudamel<\/span> gave the New York Philharmonic a salsa shock. He gleefully brought the startled players together with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, an uptown salsa and jazz band, for concerts at the city\u2019s Lincoln Centre and United Palace.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New York\u2019s classical music fans treated it as a cultural breakthrough; Dudamel is expected to transform the orchestra as a cultural institution when he returns in autumn as its music and artistic director.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">A day later, he was back in Los Angeles to begin rehearsals at a Walt Disney Concert Hall that had been fantastically transformed by <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Frank Gehry<\/span> for the Los Angeles Philharmonic\u2019s staging of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Transformation, be it cultural, orchestral or personal, has marked Dudamel\u2019s 17 years as music \u2013 and more recently, artistic \u2013 director of the LA Phil, a tenure that is now coming to an end with his three weeks of concerts at the Disney Hall to close the season on June 7, followed by a celebratory weekend at the Hollywood Bowl in late August.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But in his dressing room after a recent <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Walk\u00fcre<\/em> rehearsal, Dudamel says \u2013 as he has said before \u2013 that he does not think of this as a culmination, but merely the beginning of a new adventure. He is apartment shopping in New York. But he is keeping his house in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are talking about projects,\u201d he says. \u201cLook, I\u2019m coming back for two weeks in December,\u201d when he will lead Beethoven programmes. He returns in the spring. The Bowl will always be a second home.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019m living here and I\u2019m not living here,\u201d he says. \u201cThe connection will always be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3354975\/gustavo-dudamel-his-enduring-love-los-angeles-he-prepares-lead-ny-phil?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the second weekend of May, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel gave the New York Philharmonic a salsa shock. 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