My (radio) guest tonight -- Gustavo Dudamel

Monday 06 April 2009 -- 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CST

Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner

Gustavo Dudamel, music director-designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and music director of both the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (the National Orchestra of Sweden) and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, in an edited version of a lively, exclusive radio interview recorded on January 6 at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, three weeks before the conducting phenom's 28th birthday, when he was in town to conduct subscription concerts of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Dudamel and the Bolívars will have a three-day residency in Chicago this week, April 9 to 11, that includes a (sold-out in advance) concert at Orchestra Hall on Friday April 10 of Ravel (Second Daphnis and Chloe Suite), Venezuelan composer Evencio Castellanos (1915-1984), and the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony, as well as many music education and community events kicking off the CSO's five-week Chicago Festival of Youth in Music.

We'll also feature our first full broadcast of the live recording of Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini from Dudamel's new DG CD with the SBYOV that also includes the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony,

on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and streamed (free) on wfmt.com

and subsequently available at 

http://wfmt.com/criticalthinking

for free podcast/streaming.

See you on the radio!