L.A. Times - Entertainment — To what extent traffic affects attendance at Walt Disney Concert Hall is hard to know. Anecdotal evidence suggests that commute time matters. Even Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel last month — whe... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — When a bushy-haired 28-year-old with a magnetic podium presence became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic five years ago, Gustavo Dudamel galvanized the classical music world and beyond. more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Happy Birthday Hurricane Mama revels officially begin later this month with the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ. There will be organ and orchestra concerts conducted by Esa-Pekka... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Halfway through his current five-year contract as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel turned, as he often has at significant junctures in his career, to Gustav Mahler. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Vienna Philharmonic on Wednesday night in a glorious performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" to open the 2014-15 season at the Theater an der Wien, built in 1801 and the site of many Beethoven premieres. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The most admired of today’s German conductors, Christian Thielemann is said to be one of the two leading candidates to take over the Berlin Philharmonic when Simon Rattle leaves in four years. The other candidate appears to be Gustavo Dudamel.  more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Two years ago, on a warm July evening in Caracas, Gustavo Dudamel and his Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra were joined by Panamanian salsa star Rubén Blades for a huge outdoor concert. Bringing together for the first time two Latin American musical i... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — Cav and Pag. Coming to the Hollywood Bowl as they did Sunday night, these might have sounded like the names of a pair of sitcom slackers. And there they were, generating laughs from a good-sized crowd of over 7,000, eager to hear what Gustavo Dudamel... more info