Today, I am proud to celebrate my father, Oscar Dudamel, on the announcement of his upcoming salsa album, Sueño Alcanzado, out May 30 on Platoon.
Salsa music has been a part of my life since childhood – when I was young, I even dreamed of playing the trombone in a salsa band, but my arms were too short! Even to this day, the rhythms of this wonderful art from continue to echo in my conducting work.
Friends have been sharing news of the death today of Mary O’Reilly, a retired member of the violin and viola sections of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Before Rotterdam, Mary was 2nd concertmaster and principal 2nd […]
The Colburn School’s Music Academy is to be headed by the US violinist Margaret Batjer, concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1998. Batjer, 65, will give up her professorship at USC Thornton School […]
The Painter’s Painter Click here to sign in Nicholas Poussin is often referred to as the ‘painter’s painter’ due to his influence on artists through the decades but the National Gallery in London, which has […]