Critic's Notebook: A season with gusto

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. 3, 2009, the Los Angeles Philharmonic welcomed Gustavo Dudamel with a free, daylong concert at the Hollywood Bowl. It was a zoo. The event, which climaxed with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, was broadcast live on radio and streamed over the Internet a...

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