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Gustavo Dudamel, orchestral musics global icon of Southern California cool, is moving to New York eventually.
The musicians said, We want Gustavo Dudamel, so at that point, you become a heat-seeking missile.
Its potentially a new golden era for the New York Philharmonic.
The move may also finally put to rest decades of New Yorks classical-music West Coast envy.
Walt Disney Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, opened in L.A. in 2003.
In 2009, she hired the dewy and newsworthy Dudamel to succeed Salonen.
Whatever pockets of stale air might have hung around the L.A.
Establishment seemed to blow away with his arrival.
Now the Old Coast is catching up.
Borda moved to the New York Philharmonic in 2017, bringing a gust of California can-do positivity.
(She steps down in June, handing the reins over to her successor, Gary Ginstling.)
And now Borda has nabbed Dudamel a second time.
His appointment doesnt automatically make Lincoln Center the hot spot of orchestral innovation.
In New York, hell have more of a challenge breaking out of Geffen Hall.
Dudamel didnt so much bypass all of that as get an early start.
Very few men and essentially zero women leap straight from postadolescence to a world-class podium.
Dudamel did in the early aughts;Klaus Makela has done so more recently.
Just about every time a female conductor gets a job, shes the first woman to hold it.
Only Lydia Tarhas broken through, and she doesnt exist.
