Why the search for the next Gustavo Dudamel is full of hope — and hazards
LA TimesThe excited media coverage last week of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s choice for a new music director treated 28-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä like the second coming of Gustavo Dudamel. Salonen was 26 when he made his U.S. debut conducting the L.A. Phil in 1984, and eight years later he became music director, staying 17 seasons. Each conductor had prominent international careers guest conducting while in L.A. Mehta was music advisor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and Dudamel has continued his relationship with Venezuela’s El Sistema music education program. We had an example of that a few years ago when the gifted young French conductor Lionel Bringuier became music director of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich after his apprenticeship at the L.A. Phil under Salonen and Dudamel.
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Gustavo Dudamel will leave the L.A. Phil for the N.Y. Philharmonic
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