Dudamel will meet L.A. with Beethoven
Gustavo Dudamel will begin his first season as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl. And as a gift to the city, all 18,000 tickets to a daylong program Oct. 3 culminating with the performance, called "Bienvenido Gustavo," will be free.
The details of the 2009-10 season were to be revealed at a Walt Disney Concert Hall news conference today with Dudamel in attendance. They have been a matter of much speculation, given how rapidly the young Venezuelan conductor, who will turn 28 on Monday, has achieved an international superstar status not only within the classical music world but also, increasingly, outside it.
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