Gustavo Dudamel opens his 10th season magnificently, with the premiere of André Previn’s last-completed piece, plus Copland, Gershwin and Barber.
A year ago, the Los Angeles Philharmonic opened its centennial season with all hoopla all the time. There was a daylong parade followed by a free stellar concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Walt Disney Concert Hall was illuminated with spectacular video imagery. Game-changing new music was commissioned and premiered. Pop stars, jazz stars, they all were invited to the. The city became a symphony. The orchestral world had never seen anything like it.
Thursday night, the L.A. Phil opened its new season a week later than usual. For the first time in memory, there was no gala. There was no celebration of Dudamel’s 10th L.A. Phil anniversary. He conducted an American program that included three crowd-pleasing works. The soloists were conventional, family even. Dudamel did not even follow through with his tradition of opening the season by premiering a newly commissioned work.
The next piece on Dudamel’s program was George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, once more played as intended. The L.A. Phil did commission a piece for this week’s program in an effort to include former L.A. Phil Music Director André Previn in the centennary celebrations. Previn died in February, having just begun the score. So Dudamel substituted the largest of Previn’s recent orchestral works, “Can Spring Be Far Behind?” The night ended with Copland’s “Appalachian Spring.”However unacknowledged Dudamel’s 10th anniversary might have been, this modest program was ultimately all about him.
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