It has been ten years since I last interviewed Gustavo Dudamel. “And we’re both still here,” he quips over Zoom from Los Angeles. “More grey hairs, but we made it.”
Well, all things are relative. One of us has been in the same job for four decades. The other, still only 42, has shaken the classical music firmament with his career swerves not once but three times this year. That’s Dudamel, in case you hadn’t guessed.
In February the Venezuelan conductor announced that, after 17 years, he will be quitting his post as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2026 to take up the same position with its arch-rival on the east coast, the New York Philharmonic. Three months later he also decided
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