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October 03, 2009
Dudamel’s press briefing - The Arts Blog - OCRegister.com [del.icio.us]
"Dudamel was charming throughout, and genuine. I’m not cynical. The hype surrounding him may be hard to take at times, but he’s good, and appears to have his head on straight. His music directorship is going to be marked by his efforts to take classical music to the people, to the regular guy, but I don’t sense that he equates that with cheapening the product in any way. Just making it available to more folks. The phrase “creative use of digital platforms” was uttered, though not by him... ...Underneath the hubbub, there are plenty of naysayers, atheists if you will. They give looks to each other, roll their eyes, just to show they’re not chumps. It doesn’t matter. It’ll all come out in the wash. The music’s the thing and we’re about to get to that"Originally posted by pbailey68 from paulbailey.us (beta), ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Oct 3, 2009 at 02:10 AM