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The Dude abides

by Paul Wells on Monday, December 7, 2009 8:43am - 10 Comments

Alex Ross’s New Yorker profile of LA Philharmonic conducting wunderkind Gustavo Dudamel is up. I’ve seen Dudamel conduct twice, and Ross seems to me to get it just about right: Dudamel is the real thing, but he doesn’t single-handedly render all previous and concurrent attempts to conduct an orchestra obsolete. He will be worth watching, from a distance, while Canadian audiences continue to enjoy the work of Bramwell Tovey, Alain Trudel, Bill Eddins, Edwin Outwater, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kent Nagano, Bernard Labadie and the rest.

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http://www.googwesadgt.com Dodge

Elitist.

Daveyy

cheap shot ! go back to listening to Barry Manilow and watching reruns of the Partridge Family

http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

or this…

http://xkcd.com/193/

Auralius

Impeccable taste.

CAPS

I noticed you left out Peter and Pinkus or are they like the Professor and Maryanne on early episodes of Gilligan’s Island and are covered by “and the rest?”

http://intensedebate.com/people/Inkless Inkless

Haven't heard Oundjian conduct. I know he's thought to have done great things for the TSO. Pinchas is often a very good conductor, and sometimes the other kind. We like his violin and his Rolodex anyway.

dede

Crisp, clean and vital reading of the music. Exciting stuff.
kcm

The dude abides…great film, good soundtrack too…funny, don't remember no Mahler though. :)
http://intensedebate.com/people/Lord_Bob Lord Bob

Ross's first paragraph was a magnificent article on the classical world's conflicted views on popularity and how they fear the death by entropy of their great art and fear attention and innovation in equal measure. What a shame that he decided to swing into a rather pedestrian profile of a rather extraordinary conductor.]

Also, my compliments on the effortless swing between low-brow title and high-brow post.
bettie

Yes, that is very nice. We did enjoy Bramwell Tovey in Winnipeg, but moving to Regina, Sawa is no slouch either. He has a way of engaging the audience that suprised me.