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  • After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next?

    10/24/2014 2:11:30 PM PDT · by EveningStar · 10 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | October 24, 2014 | Mark Swed
    When a bushy-haired 28-year-old with a magnetic podium presence became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic five years ago, Gustavo Dudamel galvanized the classical music world and beyond. At the Venezuelan conductor's insistence, the gates of the Hollywood Bowl were thrown open to the community, with free tickets for all. After a proud-papa warm-up with youngsters in Youth Orchestra Los Angeles — a group inspired and founded by Dudamel — he led the L.A. Phil, Master Choral and stellar vocal soloists in an exuberant performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The Dude, as he was affectionately called, spread the joy...
  • LA Times institutional bias shows up in opera review

    03/04/2004 8:05:38 AM PST · by Lyford · 6 replies · 188+ views
    LAObserved ^ | 3/3/04 | Kevin Roderick
    Last week, the L.A. Times' Mark Swed filed a review of the opera "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" at the Music Center. He wrote that the Richard Strauss epic is "an incomparably glorious and goofy pro-life paean..." But when it ran in the paper, pro-life had been changed to anti-abortion.