Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll go to lunch with Gustavo Dudamel, the music director designate of the New York Philharmonic. We’ll also find out about plans for two casinos in Manhattan that were rejected.
It took a guy who doesn’t even have a full-time job in New York yet to get me to a place where I’d never had lunch. Or breakfast. Or a late-night snack. And it’s only a block and a half from where I live. Food people have been known to call it iconic.
He ordered. We commandeered a table outside. A taxi stopped at the light on the corner. And there he was, staring back at himself from the ad on top of the cab.
Lunch with Gustavo Dudamel, the music and artistic director designate of the New York Philharmonic, was like that. Somebody I’ve known for years walked by, and almost before she noticed me, she was telling him how great she thought the orchestra sounded last week.
Dudamel was a boy wonder when he went to Los Angeles in his late 20s. He still seems boyish as he looks to New York in middle age. He’s often described as “ebullient” or “enthusiastic,” sometimes “infectiously” so.
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