Red Hot Chili Dudamel: "Bienvenido Gustavo" on Oct. 3

The LA Phil has made public the program for the October 3 concert that will open Gustavo Dudamel's tenure as the new Music Director: a free Hollywood Bowl concert where Dudi will conduct Beethoven's Ninth (with fireworks). Among the other performers over the long day of music: Flea, who'll flaunt his senior citizen classical music skillz with the Silverlake Conservatory Ensemble.

All the relevant info here.

Comments

[ariel]

All that seems to be missing are the "Rockettes" who could be used during
the ninth , to give the work a more
contemporary feeling .Gustavo will
be flailing about like mad-should be
quite a show.How things are dragged
down to peasant level never ceases to amaze.Will fireworks go
off during the ninth ?

[Chris]

Too bad Busby Berkeley can't be here to choreograph it all.

[ariel]

Chris -much neede laugh !!!!!!thanks.
I doubt Busby Berkeley would take it
on -from seeing his work he seems
within his range an artist of integrity who
would not use poor Ludwigs' 9th as a
stalking horse to further his career as it
seems Gustavo does. I was hoping
perhaps the flailing Lang Lang along
with the flailing Gustovo - what a scene!
Even Mr. Berkeley would have been awed . Bet poor Beethoven from wherever regrets writing that 9th.

[Melinda]

This was a joke trying to get tickets. I was on ticketmaster exactly at 12:00pm August 1 AND ticketmaster phone line. Tickets were sold out on ticketmaster by 12:05. Apparently there offered pre-internet tickets Jul 31st which was never advertised. I wasted a whole morning waiting to get tickets/