{"id":1160,"date":"2009-01-22T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/01\/la-phil-vs-radiohead.html"},"modified":"2009-01-22T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T00:49:00","slug":"la-phil-vs-radiohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/01\/la-phil-vs-radiohead.html","title":{"rendered":"LA PHIL VS RADIOHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SXkXEhb0OiI\/AAAAAAAAAEI\/-5xrv25hVlw\/s1600-h\/greenwood.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SXkXEhb0OiI\/AAAAAAAAAEI\/-5xrv25hVlw\/s320\/greenwood.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>Just back from a LA Philharmonic press conference which is the most elaborate i&#8217;ve seen from any arts group, including i think the getty&#8217;s launch a decade ago&#8230; they&#8217;re very excited about Gustavo Dudamel, the 27-year-old venezuelan who kicks off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/23\/arts\/music\/23duda.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">his first season<\/a> here in the fall. the one concert i saw him conduct, which included a berlioz, was as good as the considerable hype. (i have vowed to call him &#8220;the dude.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>so we&#8217;re all looking curiously forward to the guy&#8217;s arrival.\u00a0i was disappointed, though, that esa-pekka <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esa-Pekka_Salonen\">salonen<\/a> was not at the shindig &#8212; his time as music director kinda of defines not only my time in LA personally, but i think a period where the city&#8217;s culture become vastly more sophisticated, unpredictable and hybrid. (i did get to bump into california composer john adams, who is directing a very cool festival of west coast music that includes frank zappa and his own &#8220;the dharma at big sur,&#8221; more on him later.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>anyway what i mean by hybrid, mostly, is a union of fine and pop culture that has been part of LA&#8217;s genetic makeup for a long time, but which really developed in the last few years. one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2003\/jan\/28\/entertainment\/et-timberg28\">favorite conversations with salonen<\/a> involve his interest in rock n roll. i&#8217;m quite impressed with it, especially if you think of what terrible taste in music most continental europeans have. i mean, italo-pop anyone?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr user<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aon\/2486778426\/\"> 12<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a LA Philharmonic press conference which is the most elaborate i&#8217;ve seen from any arts group, including i think the getty&#8217;s launch a decade ago&#8230; they&#8217;re very excited about Gustavo Dudamel, the 27-year-old venezuelan who kicks off his first season here in the fall. the one concert i saw him conduct, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374,147,130,560,226,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dudamel","7":"category-john-adams","8":"category-la-philharmonic","9":"category-radiohead","10":"category-salonen","11":"category-west-coast","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}