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How did Gustavo Dudamel end his L.A. Phil season? By saving the best for last

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Gustavo Dudamel’s 16th and penultimate winter season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic has not been quite as ambitious as others. No big opera. Two full symphonies in his “Mahler Grooves” festival, unlike his unprecedented full nine-symphony Mahler festival in 2012. Over the next five-plus months, Dudamel’s only appearances here will be two weeks in August … Read more

How Gustavo Dudamel’s Mahler festival grooves for young and old

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Some months before beginning his six-week Mahler Project in 2012, a 30-year Gustavo Dudamel said he was studying like crazy. Just before the first concert on Jan. 13 that year, he said, “It’s crazy,” the craziness being that he was about to attempt something beyond reason: performing all nine completed Mahler symphonies and the first … Read more