As longtime visitors may know, I do a Beethoven thing here every Sunday morning, noting that there are actual meeting places scattered around the country called the Church of Beethoven where people gather each Sunday for music and reflection. This week's "sermon" here is inspired by Alex Ross's fine article in this week's New Yorker on Dudamel and his early experience with L.A. Philharmonic. His debut doing Beethoven's Ninth was streamed online and, naturally, I watched and tweeted and blogged. I was fortunate to catch Dudamel in virtually his first NYC concert doing Beethoven's Fifth. Here is the opening of the final movement for the Ninth, but it's all up at YouTube:
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