The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s departing music director Gustavo Dudamel will return to the Hollywood Bowl subsequent week.
Dudamel, the face of the classical music world in L.A. since his 2009 debut as music director, is in his penultimate season right here earlier than departing to guide the New York Philharmonic. Given latest federal journey bans on Venezuelans, he was pressured to cancel native dates along with his Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in August, and he solely had one week deliberate for conducting throughout the Bowl’s summer time season this 12 months.
The season’s opening night time on the Bowl was “a relatively somber occasion, which, despite the lovely atmosphere, fit the mood of the times,” as Instances critic Mark Swed mentioned.
So this one-week return with an exceptionally numerous invoice can be a welcome event to see him within the twilight of his tenure in L.A.
On Aug. 5, Dudamel (with pianist Seong-Jin Cho) will lead a program pulled from jazz large Duke Ellington and French composer Maurice Ravel, together with Ellington’s “Harlem” and “Black, Brown and Beige” and Ravel’s Piano Live performance for the Left Hand and Piano Live performance in G. The pairing will present how American jazz and the Harlem renaissance influenced and expanded potentialities for Ravel and European music of the period.
He’ll comply with that up on Aug. 7 with Mahler’s bombastic Symphony No. 1 “Titan,” with Vilde Frang enjoying Erich Korngold’s violin concerto (a becoming highlight on a golden-era Hollywood rating legend). On Aug. 8-9, Dudamel will conduct John Williams’ crowd-favorite “Jurassic Park” rating over a dwell screening of the summer time blockbuster.
Dudamel lately debuted with the L.A. Phil at Coachella, a long-awaited crossover occasion the place the orchestra collaborated with pop stars together with Dave Grohl, Zedd, Laufey and LL Cool J. For Los Angeles music followers who need to see Dudamel within the Bowl earlier than he departs after subsequent 12 months’s season, these are a number of the greatest possibilities to take action in 2025.
