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

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