For those of you who missed it, Gustavo Dudamel (music director-designate of the LA Philharmonic) was featured on 60 Minutes on Sunday evening.  You can go here to see the video of the segment.

Oregon Public Broadcasting will present Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in their performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (from a performance at Carnegie Hall this past fall) along with bits of performances by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra.

Check out the OPB website for broadcast times (it will also be presented in high-definition, too). Click here for a teaser video and here for details.
PBS affiliates nationwide will also be broadcasting this concert as part of the Great Performances series.

This is the review that did it for me - New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini fairly wetting himself over the Philharmonic debut of conductor it-boy of this decade, Gustavo Dudamel. [Read more →]