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Conductor injures himself during performance, cannot continue

May 8, 2010 by philip copeland Leave a Comment


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Gustavo Dudamel injured himself in the first half of a performance recently and couldn’t continue the performance:
 
Dudamel lunged energetically early in the last movement of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and pulled a muscle in his neck.Philharmonic president Deborah Borda said that the 28-year-old Venezuelan music director heard a loud pop and lost sensation on one side. He managed to pump out enough endorphins to keep up a fiery performance, but he did not look himself at the curtain call.
 
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  1. Edward Palmer says

    May 15, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    This was nationall news. Why put it here and especially with an incorrect headline? They are on tour and playing in Nashville
    where they are giving $25,000 to the city . Dudamel’s conducting is pretty wild, most of it unnecessary for a professional orchestra.
    But that’s HOLLYWOOD! Remember Oscar Levant’s comment about Bernstein, how he used the orchestra to accompany his conducting!?
     
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  2. Ronald Richard Duquette says

    May 10, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Considering the fact that this blog site had a "flailing conductor" comment a week or so ago, q.e.d.?
     
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