Dudamel's New York: The Philharmonic's Season That Changes Everything
The ink on Gustavo Dudamel's inaugural gala is barely dry, and already the New York Philharmonic's autumn programme reads like a statement of intent.
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The ink on Gustavo Dudamel's inaugural gala is barely dry, and already the New York Philharmonic's autumn programme reads like a statement of intent.
It's August, and Straight No Chaser are already plotting their annual November takeover — this time with a setlist that proves summer gave them plenty to work with.
He named his debut sound 'trap soul' and a decade later, he's touring under the banner 'Neo Trapsoul' — that prefix does a lot of work.
He opened every European show this summer with 'Billy Budd' — a song about wrongful condemnation. That choice doesn't feel accidental.
When a smooth jazz trumpeter opens with 'Someday My Prince Will Come' — a Miles Davis staple — it's either audacious or deluded. With Chris Botti, it's neither: it's a statement.

Sixty dates, one city — Vince Giordano's summer residency asks what it means to be the custodian of a century-old sound in a town that invented it.
When a man opens a show at Newmarket Racecourse with Also sprach Zarathustra and closes it with Bring Him Home, he's not playing it safe — he's making a statement.
At the Filene Center two days ago, she opened with 'Don't You Want a Woman' and closed with 'More Love' — and that arc tells you everything about where Melissa Etheridge is right now.
Twenty years on from the album that defined them, Blue October are staging a reckoning with their own history — and the setlists from their recent European run suggest they know exactly what they're doing.
The man who wrote the songs about writing songs is doing farewell tours like a greatest hits album — multiple versions, each claiming to be definitive.
From New Mexico casinos to East Coast amphitheatres, the Las Vegas quintet's 53-date trek reveals a band comfortable in its own skin.
Six years after Neil Peart's death seemingly closed the book on Rush, Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are back with Anika Nilles behind the kit—and their recent setlists reveal a band confronting its own mythology.
Three years after Disney, Olivia Rodrigo's setlist choices reveal an artist deliberately shedding her past.
When Journey opens with The Who's 'Baba O'Riley' instead of their own anthems, something's shifting in the arena rock playbook.
At KOKO last December, Cole opened with 'The Climb Back' — and suddenly the room understood this wasn't just another victory lap.
Eighteen years after winning America's Best Dance Crew, the masked collective still owns their Vegas theater—and 401 upcoming dates prove they're not going anywhere.
Twenty-eight years after their formation, Ireland's pop titans are proving that some formulas never get old — even when they probably should.