New York Philharmonic Appoints Gustavo Dudamel as Music Director

Dudamel, a charismatic 42-year-old conductor, will take up the Philharmonic’s podium in 2026, in a major coup for the orchestra.

Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’

Two performances, at Trinity Church Wall Street and the New York Philharmonic, were similar yet showed how beauty emerges in divergence.