This video clip of Gustavo Dudamel conducting at the Proms has been making the rounds for weeks, and I haven't been able stop thinking about what it means. You can't do this sort of thing with Mozart and Lutoslawski (well, probably not), but Dudamel uses Bernstein to point at how serious classical concert conventions have become. You can safely assume that orchestra CEOs, marketing and artistic administrators worldwide are examing it for clues to the future.
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Peter Dobrin has been writing about classical music and the arts for The Inquirer since 1989. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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Loved it!
Posted by David M. Barrett | September 16, 2007 9:18 PM
Posted on September 16, 2007 21:18