{"id":889,"date":"2012-02-03T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/?p=889"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:42:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T22:42:33","slug":"ladies-and-gentlemen-gustavo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2012\/02\/ladies-and-gentlemen-gustavo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies and gentlemen: GUSTAVO!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently credited with ending gang violence in LA<\/a>, Gustavo Dudamel has achieved something even more impressive: on Monday, he will appear on the best television show of all time, Sesame Street<\/em>. For those of you who don’t remember, Sesame Street <\/em>is on PBS.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times <\/em>reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the segment, Dudamel and Elmo demonstrate the word “stupendous” by conducting a sheep playing a violin, an octopus playing the drums and a chorus of opera-singing penguins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would that the sheep was a Hilary Hahn sheep. Or a Hilary Hahn alpaca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nico Muhly suggested on Twitter<\/a> that David Lang should go on Sesame Street\u00a0<\/em>with the Poverty Muppet<\/a> as The Little Match Girl in his Pulitzer Prize-winning the little match girl passion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Declan, who works with me, asked if Dudamel was going to BE a Muppet, which of course would be The Best Thing. I believe they gave Rita Moreno a Muppet of herself on The Muppet Show<\/em> once. But it looks like The Dude appears in the flesh, not the fabric.<\/p>\n

It’s really all I want for my clients. I even created Muppets for them<\/a>, so half the work is already done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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