L.A. Times - Entertainment — “You know, I didn’t want to speak out,” Gustavo Dudamel said in a short interview in his office at Walt Disney Concert Hall. He’d just taken part in a conversation at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Take a Stand... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — We know exactly the atmosphere in which Wagner wanted his music performed. Or at least we think we do, and it is not sonically, physically and aesthetically the Hollywood Bowl, where Gustavo Dudamel happened to lead a spectacularly effective all-Wagn... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The last time Stephen Sondheim was at the Hollywood Bowl was 2005 for a concert in honor of his 75th birthday. "They handled the traffic pretty well,” he recalls. On Sunday, the Hollywood Bowl will again be filled with the sound of Sondheim whe... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — American Ballet Theatre finished its New York season with a Tchaikovsky Spectacular last weekend that freed two of its biggest stars, Misty Copeland and Marcelo Gomes, to appear at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. Freed and prepared. The New York... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Gustavo Dudamel begins a two-week cycle of Bartók piano concertos with Yuja Wang that also includes Janácek (the spectacular "Glagolitic Mass") and Stravinsky (the rarely heard "Requiem Canticles"). more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Gustavo Dudamel didn’t dedicate his silken performance of Schubert’s elegant Fifth Symphony on Thursday night to Deborah Borda. But the touchingly tender slow movement spoke for itself. After opening his program with the symphony, havin... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The young Franz Schubert has a friend in Gustavo Dudamel. Last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began a cycle of Schubert’s symphonies with the opening concert dedicated to the youths dying in protest marches in Dudamel’s native Venez... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — No one makes history with Schubert’s early symphonies. Schubert didn’t. But Gustavo Dudamel did Friday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall. He walked on stage with uncharacteristic brusqueness — no smiles. The Venezuelan music dire... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Gustavo Dudamel goes political. The Tony nominations are in — and they are eclectic. Plus, Cheech Marin wants to open a Chicano art center in Riverside. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, and here is your s... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Under normal conditions, the news about Gustavo Dudamel this weekend would focus on his return to Walt Disney Concert Hall after a three-month absence to begin a rare cycle of Schubert symphonies. But these are not normal conditions. On Thursday, the... more info