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      'Contagious joy' of Los Angeles orchestra's new conductor

      Posted by Jeff from music.guardian.co.uk

      The world of classical music acclaimed a new star yesterday after the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra named Gustavo Dudamel, a 26-year-old Venezuelan conductor who has electrified audiences, as its next music director. The surprise announcement confirmed Dudamel's rapid rise from anonymity just a few years ago to a wunderkind who has been courted by European and US orchestras in search of a fresh and passionate sound.

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    • Joshua Bells Plays the D.C. Metro

      Posted by Jeff from Washington Post

      Things never got much better. In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were doing to hang around and take in the performance, at least for a minute. Twenty-seven gave money, most of them on the run -- for a total of $32 and change. That leaves the 1,070 people who hurried by, oblivious, many only three feet away, few even turning to look.

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