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.
The New York Times, whose arts pages resemble an offshoot of PR Week, has published a soft piece on the Spanish violinist Maria Duenas. No harm in that. But the headline reads: ‘A 21-Year-Old Violinist […]
Remember the University of Michigan? It’s where the last president was fired for allegedly coming on to a staff member. But that’s the least of its misdeeds. It ignored years of sexual abuse by violin professor […]
In the week that composer Per Nørgård passed away, we are informed of the death of the important conductor Tamás Vetö. He died a week after his 90th birthday. A fugitive from the 1956 Hungarian […]