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A makeover for Esa-Pekka Salonen

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Remember when they used to call classical music ‘long-hair music’? Seems one of our favorite conductors is going the other way. Esa-Pekka Salonen‘s trademark locks have been shorn now that he’s moved on from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

We took the photo at right this week in Copenhagen, where E-P was conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra from London. The one at left is from earlier this year in L.A.

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For more on Salonen, come back to Culture Monster tomorrow for Mark Swed’s report from Copenhagen (and Oslo).

-- Sherry Stern

Photo credits: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times, left, and Agnethe Schnittkrull / For The Times.

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