The 2024-25 season will be Gustavo Dudamel’s penultimate with the L.A. Phil before he departs for the New York Philharmonic in 2026. “Gustavo is always exploring connections between the core repertoire and our city,” Meghan Umber, L.A. Phil’s chief content officer, wrote in an email, noting that Dudamel “has curated three orchestral programs that explore different sides of Mahler — …
Zubin Mehta walks onstage more slowly than he did in his youthful, dashing days and is helped by a cane. Zubin Mehta conducts the L.A. Philharmonic in Mahler’s Third Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall Where does Mehta Sound come from? He once came to my performance of Mahler’s Fifth and didn’t like it.” Zubin Mehta conducts the L.A. Phil …
Everyone is asking, or predicting, “what’s next.” That’s what you do in a pandemic. When now?” And Luciano Berio, applying Mahler’s symphony and Beckett’s novel as framework in his “Sinfonia,” took “What next?” to the next step. Berio took the second movement of Mahler’s Second Symphony, known as the “Resurrection,” and added musical commentaries in the form of snippets of …
