There are not many people in the history of music who have occupied the music director's chair at the tender age of 18. Still only 30, Gustavo Dudamel was appointed to the top position at the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Venezuela's national youth orchestra, in 1999. And this was just the beginning of a meteoric career. In 2005, he conducted the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at the Proms in London as a late stand-in. The following month, he was named Principal Conductor. It was not long bef...ore he was appearing with some of the top names in classical music, such as the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, and gracing La Scala in Milan. He was also head-hunted by the Boston and Chicago Philharmonics. In 2007, Dudamel was named musical director to succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles from the 2009–2010 season. Here, the orchestra will play Gustav Mahler's final symphony to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the conductor's death. It first performed the piece in 1969, conducted by John Barbirolli. Lasting the entire evening, the work is one of symphonic music's finest, defining the genre according to the atonal philosophies of Schönberg, Berg and Webern. Presented by the Palace of Arts
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