L.A. Times - Entertainment — USC’s shiny new-old architecture. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s swipe at Gustavo Dudamel. The Berkshire Museum’s disquieting plan to sell off its art. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times,... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night may not have been a galaxy far, far away, but Holst’s “The Planets” and the premiere of an Icelandic violin concerto did give Gustavo Dudamel some musical and emotional distance from the tensions... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Los Angeles has been good to Daníel Bjarnason. In April, the Icelandic composer and conductor co-curated the Reykjavík Festival for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. On Tuesday night, Bjarnason's Violin Concerto receives its world premiere at the H... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — When I met Gustavo Dudamel three years ago to talk about his upcoming TchaikovskyFest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he took a while to get around to the L.A. Phil. He was just back from Caracas and over the moon about conducting a new Venezuelan... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Politics and music are making for uneasy bedfellows these days. The highly anticipated Ravinia Festival debut of conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s  acclaimed National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela scheduled for Sept. 4 has been canceled, as have all the ... more info

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New York Times — Stung by Mr. Dudamel’s recent statements, the Venezuelan government called off his concerts next month with the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic music director who has slowly been pulled deeper into the political and economic crisis of his native Venezuela, helped to win the release of a musician-protester detained by the government, a source clos... more info

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