A news flash for Gustavo Dudamel fans: Cal Performances has arranged to have the celebrity conductor and his Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela streamed and broadcast live from Berkeley’s ...

In some respects, D-day at Walt Disney Concert Hall resembled many another Friday night concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A young man conducted. Another young man played the piano. The hall was ...

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Join CapRadio Music and NPR Music for a live audio performance of Gustavo Dudamel conducting Mahler's Fifth Symphony, and a new percussion concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang in ...

One year into his gig as director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, 29-year-old Gustavo Dudamel is making good on his promises. When he arrived in LA in the fall of 2009, he talked about ...

The Vienna Philharmonic does not have a music director or any kind of principal conductor. The orchestra is managed by the players themselves. So being asked to guest conduct for more than a single ...

Many music lovers consider Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” (“Le Sacre du Printemps”), subtitled “Scenes from Pagan Russia,” the greatest orchestral composition of the 20th century. Or at least the ...

Colombian superstar Juanes, not at the Hollywood Bowl but during the Opening Ceremony of last October’s Pan-American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. Photo: Mike Ehrmann, Getty Images Friday night’s ...

Gustavo Dudamel is a busy man. Spread your fingers across any random desk calendar. In the space between your thumb and pinky finger, Dudamel — the music and artistic director of the Los Angeles ...

Yet Dudamel's stats can still be staggering. He told me recently he was 11 when he played his first Mahler symphony and 16 when he took the podium to conduct Mahler. "My first big piece was Mahler's ...