The day finally is here and L.A. is ready for him. Gustavo Dudamel conducts his first concert today as the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A live audience of 18,000 awaits him for ...

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Duke Ellington's "Harlem" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. (Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times) Tuesday night, Gustavo Dudamel was back at ...

If there were a Guinness World Records entry for "Most Infamous Music Premiere," Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring would almost certainly take the prize. The year was 1913. The Théâtre des ...

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in 2021. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) For more than a decade, Gustavo Dudamel galvanized the classical music scene in ...

One year into his gig as director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, 29-year-old Gustavo Dudamel is making good on his promises. When he arrived in LA in the fall of 2009, he talked about ...

Gustavo Dudamel leads two of the world's great orchestras - the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela - combined with multiple choirs and soloists in Mahler's ...

Recent works by Gabriela Ortiz, choral music by David Lang and unreleased recordings by Radu Lupu are among our selections.

"It's like Stravinsky wrote the piece one week ago," says Los Angeles Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel, who leads this iconic score and... If there were a Guinness World Records entry for ...