Dude gets pinned by Macron
NewsGustavo Dudamel was appointed an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the President of France on Saturday night after conducting a season-opening performance of Puccini’s Tosca at the Opéra de Paris.
The LA Phil was quick to congratulate him.
Dude, who lives in Spain does a job share between LA and Paris.
Please join us in wishing the heartiest of congratulations to our Music & Artistic Director, Gustavo Dudamel, who has been named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. A much-deserved honor, @gustavodudamel!
Photo credit: Danny Clinch (@Danny_Clinch) pic.twitter.com/2XOh1v1le8
— LA Phil (@LAPhil) September 4, 2022
You better not boo his performances, as an Officer, he can arrest you for disorderly conduct.
That’s the good thing about working in Europe, you get all sorts of knighthoods and shiny medals; in the US, the best you can hope for is to throw out the opening pitch at a baseball game and get a baseball shirt with your name on it.
One you can put on your résumé, the other, well, I suppose you COULD say you pitched for the Yankees…
I would rather throw out a first pitch any day, than be given a knighthood or a pin.
one last comment on this topic, I swear: Dudamel is wont to pose these days with a finger to his temple (it’s also on his latest album cover) to signify, see, I’m more than just a haircut (as Muti, of all people, snarkily suggests), I have a brain too
Oh yes, yes! Very well said!
And Muti is more obsessed with ‘hair’, in unexpected daring ways that only a few lucky (or unlucky) people are cognizant of … but in Chicago, we know! 😉
Time to start those French lessons.
Time make some records! Opera de Paris has an excellent orchestra. Dudamel is talented…
Listen to his last DGG Dvorak album, you won’t hear much talent from conductor or orchestra……
Congratulations, Maestro Dudamel!
Now, THAT’s an honor that one can proudly list on a biography and website!
Unlike the Order of Friendship that Muti received from Putin, and that the CSO printed and boasted about on their program for a decade, even on the night of the now notorious phony ‘bloody tank’ Chicago speech!
Almost six month after the speech, Muti is still hanging tight to his Putin Order of Friendship, and to the honorary membership of the Russian Academy for the Arts, a second Russian honor received at the end of 2021.
And the picture, have you eyes? Manly dignity and fair grace, not doomed bromance. Look you now, compare it with this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_with_Riccardo_Muti-1.jpg
A picture says a thousand words, including those that cannot be pronounced in public! 😉
on the second pic, a soundtrack would have done it:
“Lovely, don’t you ever change
Keep that breathless charm
Won’t you please arrange it?
‘Cause I love you
A-just the way you look tonight”
Not to dwell on this, but the source of your file in the link is the Kremlin’s official website apparently, according to wikimedia.org. just saying
*Yawn*
I read the headline and thought those two were in a wrestling match.
Mais bien sur! Many get the Ordre – chevalier, officier, commandeur. So depending on his performance in Paris, he might qualify for a promotion in future! Good on him!
A dime a dozen. Nothing to crow about.
View from America II:
Pretty good.
Get a *Légion d’honneur* and you’ll be up to Jerry Lewis’s level.
Really, who cares? War in Ukraine, power cuts to come, crisis wherever you look in the country…..they still enjoy champagne and macarons on a very average conductor, it sounds a bit like Titanic….