LOS ANGELES – If any score is made-to-order for the musical strengths and temperament of conductor Gustavo Dudamel, Bernstein's West Side Story is it. Dudamel delivered the goods, and then some, at the Hollywood Bowl.
OJAI, Calif. - All but two works at this year's festival were by women, about which Peter Sellars said, “I’d rather not have to mention that, but there’s something wildly exciting about hearing from the other half of the planet.”
Rejecting Leonard Bernstein's disjointed operatic approach, Michael Tilson Thomas' new recording is all of a piece, the sound of 1957 Broadway stretching confidently into fresh, tragic territory instead of a work at war with itself.