All shall have prizes: Dude gets bling
Newspress release:
LOS ANGELES (April 11, 2023) – LA Phil Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel will receive the UCLA Medal, the highest honor for extraordinary accomplishment given to an individual by the university, from UCLA Chancellor Gene Block during a ceremony on Tuesday, May 7.
As part of the ceremony, Dudamel will conduct a rehearsal featuring Danzón No. 8 by Arturo Márquez, a work inspired by the Cuban dance style (danzón) and among the most popular Mexican orchestral pieces written in the 20th century. The rehearsal will include musicians from UCLA Philharmonia, the flagship orchestra of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and one of Southern California’s premiere training orchestras, and YOLA, the LA Phil’s music education program that currently serves nearly 1,700 young musicians from more than 200 schools across Los Angeles County. The event will be livestreamed on The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music website.
The Dude abides….
UCLA is 90% Asian, would be interesting to hear them play Mexican music on May 7. At this point Dudamel is effectively a Hollywood celebrity. The next LA Phil MD will have a big shoe to fill.
From the internet, demographics of u c l a = about 36% percent asian.
Sorry, but may I ask what the size of UCLA’s Asian population has to do with whether or not they play/hear Mexican music? I’m not sure I understand the corollary. Musicians, regardless of their ethnicity, play the assigned repertoire and it isn’t that Asians in the audience make it a point to never listen to Mexican rep. I find the first sentence of your comment very odd. The rest of it I can agree with, though there are many very talented conductors around of all ethnicities and genders and I think the LA Phil will be fine if they have the right leadership guiding them.
Well-deserved!
Yawn, who cares?
That’s one way to promote your little music school and orchestra, give out a medal, your self-proclaimed “highest honor”, to a big name artist, then make him conduct the school band, and live stream the whole thing, record it, and put in on your school website forever….
Don’t worry Dude, NY will do the same to you, expect invitations from Juilliard on down…. Warning: NYC has a LOT MORE music schools than LA… choose your “highest honor medals” wisely… Good rule of thumb, if your musicians didn’t graduate from one of the schools, don’t bother answering
NYC has Juilliard, MSM, Mannes. LA has USC Thorton, Colburn, and UCLA Herb Alpert. These are stand-alone “Schools” (I didn’t count smaller “Departments”). What am I missing in NYC?
LA Phil just announced its new season. Here is the guest conductors line-up, potential new MD —
Robin Ticciati, Gustavo Gimeno, Sarah Hicks, Eun Sun Kim, Xian Zhang, Ryan Bancroft, Ludovic Morlot, Lorenzo Viotti, Paavo Jarvi, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Jordan, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Wow, UCLA’s Music School might top next year’s QS rankings with that splurge
I would love to hang out in LA with Gustavo Dudamel, Herb Alpert, and Lani Hall.