L.A. Times - Entertainment — Herbie Hancock was enthusing in black tie and Neil Diamond was conspicuously inconspicuous in a sea of silver-haired tuxedoed men and immaculately glamorous women. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The party tents are set up. Crews have cleaned the soot off Walt Disney Concert Hall. And the freak Southern California rain appears to have dissipated, as if on cue. more info

Guardian Music — From Los Angeles to Lucerne, Sweden to La Scala, conductor Gustavo Dudamel tells Alan Rusbridger how he's still passionate about his mission to bring joy to the worldGustavo Dudamel's time is precious and severely rationed. Everyone wants a piece of ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Sunday night was Dudamel's third Bowl appearance, and once more an unwieldy amphitheater served as a site for a rite of passage -- his American opera debut. more info

Guardian Music — 'Conductors are like football managers'It's a truth universally assumed that today's conductors differ from their despotic forebears. You won't find Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez or Daniel Barenboim bawling out orchestras the way Arturo Toscanini, Herb... more info

The Telegraph — Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, cond Gustavo Dudamel. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — The Dude's US tour with the LA Phil has underwhelmed, while LA Opera's Ring cycle finds critics in and outside the theatreIt had to happen. The critical backlash against Gustavo Dudamel has begun in earnest in the States, with reviewers across Americ... more info

L.A. Times - News — Gustavo Dudamel's remarkable first campaign with the Philharmonic was as exciting for its sheer adventurousness as for the conductor's promising future. On Oct... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Harsh critiques plus back-handed praise out of New York, Chicago and elsewhere suggest the L.A. Phil's young music director may be upsetting the traditional pecking order. ... more info

Mercury News, California — Gustavo Dudamel is the hottest commodity in classical music — in decades. Yet the 29 year-old conductor isn't a physically imposing figure on the podium. more info