L.A. Times - Entertainment — Of “West Side Story’s” many Broadway musical innovations, the least noticed may be the role of the conductor. In the first of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s two performances of Leonard Bernstein’s complete score at th... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The flags at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night for the opening concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s summer season flew at half-mast. It had been a day of national soul-searching. In his speech at the memorial for the five slain police offi... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — It was one short walk for a music director and one surprising leap for an opera company. The week after finishing his seventh season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gustavo Dudamel crossed 1st Street to finish Los Angel... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Los Angeles Philharmonic began 2007 with the first appearance of Gustavo Dudamel guest-conducting a regular indoor, fully rehearsed symphony concert in the U.S. after he debuted in this country at the Hollywood Bowl and then led the Boston Sympho... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Is Donald Trump a force of nature? Is Bernie? One wants to build the world's most imposing wall to keep Others out. One wants to take down Wall Street to let everyone else in. Nature, however, is boss. She couldn't care less about how we humans do ou... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — When symphony orchestras tour, they tend to do so incognito. The same-old, same-old standard repertory turns up everywhere, rarely revealing much about the time or town the musicians come from, as if they have something to hide. Gustavo Dudamel retur... more info

Mercury News, California — A memorable year in classical music was also enriched by Gustavo Dudamel, a San Jose Opera world premiere, Terry Riley, Music@Menlo and an opera performed at an abandoned train station. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — One of the surprise stars in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is a musical one: Gustavo Dudamel, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted the opening and end titles music by composer John Williams. Dudamel recalled his disbelief wh... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — God of light and music, Apollo stood for clarity, harmony and reason. He was healer and protector to ancient Greeks and beyond. It was to the sun god that three major 20th century composers turned in the troubled years between 1927 and 1939 — a per... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Eloisa Maturén, the wife of conductor Gustavo Dudamel, will star in a Los Angeles stage production of the popular Spanish play "Ay Carmela!" that will feature music by her husband and sets by architect Frank Gehry. The production, which comes from t... more info