Before Gustavo Dudamel’s arrival this week, members of the New York Philharmonic -- the orchestra known as the “conductor eater” -- e-mailed one another that YouTube video clip of the young maestro, ...

Gustavo Dudamel’s latest opus, “Fiesta,” recently released by Deutsche Grammophon, is a hugely enjoyable album of light classics, many of which are not too widely known. By “light classics” we mean no ...

If you were to judge the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela solely from the exhilarating video clip that's been making the rounds on the Internet - the one of the young players and their music ...

So when was the last time you went to a classical concert at which the musicians performed with harrowing emotional commitment, technical precision and near-manic rhythmic surety, then acknowledged ...

See why everyone is excited about Gustavo Dudamel, the next music director of the L.A. Philharmonic, by clicking here. Really, go ahead and do it because it’s fun. Now, I wouldn’t necessarily advocate ...

Once again, Gustavo Dudamel has come to town with his special ways: among other things showing that classical music can artfully embrace drum freak-outs and flat-out fun. By the time his Simón Bolívar ...