The Gustavo goodbye express keeps rolling
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- Our streets are garlanded with “Gracias, Gustavo” banners and billboards.
- First, though, he gave Daniel Harding a proper L.A. initiation by taking the British conductor and soccer fan to a Dodger game.
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Our streets are garlanded with “Gracias, Gustavo” banners and billboards. The Walt Disney Concert Hall shop has become a Dudamel-torium, aisles bursting with Gustavo T-shirts, hoodies, tote bags, refrigerator magnets and this and that. Not everything is tacky. The extra-large “Die Walküre” T-shirts sold out early, unfortunately.
In the past week, Gustavo Dudamel’s sort-of penultimate week as Los Angeles Philharmonic music and artistic director (he’ll have a Hollywood Bowl grand finale in August), he officially handed the baton to his successor as the orchestra’s music director at a news conference on the Disney Hall stage. First, though, he gave Daniel Harding a proper L.A. initiation by taking the British conductor and soccer fan to a Dodger game.