The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel. Photo by Mathew Imaging.
In Tuesday’s (3/5) Los Angeles Times, Jessica Gelt writes, “When Gustavo Dudamel discovered that the Mahler Society of Los Angeles made bumper stickers in the 1970s reading ‘Mahler Grooves,’ he was inspired to create a festival … The result is part of the 2024-25 season lineup for Walt Disney Concert Hall, announced Tuesday by the Los Angeles Philharmonic…. Meghan Umber, L.A. Phil’s chief content officer, [stated] that Dudamel ‘has curated three orchestral programs that explore different sides of Mahler’ … Umber said that Dudamel ‘loves the diversity of the offerings overall … from Rachmaninoff with Lang Lang, Florence Price with Randall Goosby and a special program for Día de los Muertos.’… Highlights include a Seoul Festival, curated by Unsuk Chin, that celebrates modern Korean performers, composers and culture; the culmination of John Williams’ two-year collaboration with the orchestra … featuring music and film clips from the nine ‘Star Wars’ movies … the beginning of Baroque conductor Emmanuelle Haïm’s three-year tenure as artist-collaborator with the Handel Project; the continuation of Dudamel’s Pan-American Music Initiative, including a new Gabriela Ortiz commission; and the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Gospel Mass conducted by Dudamel, with visuals by creative director Melina Matsoukas.”
