MUSIC GOING STRAIGHT TO THE HEART
LOS ANGELES—A symphony concert by Dudamel & Co. is not an event; it is an experience. Music Director Gustavo Dudamel is transported to another world in conducting his Los Angeles Philharmonic. With a work like Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” (the suite), he is animated and as if in a psychedelic trance during the music, the whole score in memory, and faithfully giving visual cues to the players in unsurpassed efficiency. At the end, 10 seconds of rapt silence before he…