#gustavo-dudamel

#gustavo-dudamel

Dating to 1923, the Mediterranean-inspired Four Square-style house sits up from the street amid towering palm trees. Steps lead to a portico and wooden front door with leaded-glass sidelights. The 3,600 square feet of updated and restored interiors feature pocket doors that open to the living and dining rooms. Delicate molding, hardwood floors and coved ceilings are among the other period details.

Dudamel filled the first two weeks of the season with a generous vision of America, leading works by the 20th-century New Englander Charles Ives, the unassimilated immigrant Béla Bartók, the 87-year-old New Yorker John Corigliano, and the young(ish) native Hawaiian Leilehua Lanzilotti. What unites them, and evidently excites Dudamel, is their disparateness - not just the range of backgrounds and time periods but the way they define American music as a great amalgamation.