Dudamel, now 45, took up the post of music and artistic director last week, having previously wielded the baton at the Los Angeles Philharmonic for seventeen widely acclaimed seasons.
现年45岁的杜达梅尔于上周履新音乐与艺术总监一职,此前他曾在洛杉矶爱乐乐团执棒十七个广受赞誉的乐季。
He thereby becomes the 27th chief conductor in the history of the New York Philharmonic, a lineage whose predecessors include titans of the age such as Gustav Mahler, Willem Mengelberg, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez.
他由此成为纽约爱乐乐团史上第27位首席指挥,其前任不乏古斯塔夫·马勒、威廉·门格尔贝格、布鲁诺·瓦尔特、伦纳德·伯恩斯坦及皮埃尔·布列兹等一代巨匠。
Dudamel may be regarded as a product of Venezuela's "El Sistema," the music education programme.
杜达梅尔堪称委内瑞拉“音乐救助体系”这一音乐教育项目的产物。
In October 1995, he performed on the stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington as a violinist with the National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and afterwards travelled by bus with the orchestra to the United Nations to take part in a concert.
1995年10月,他以委内瑞拉国家儿童交响乐团小提琴手的身份,在华盛顿肯尼迪中心登台献艺,随后随乐团乘坐大巴,前往联合国参加音乐会。
"They said we were going to go through an underwater tunnel, and at that point we couldn't help but wonder, 'What?' It was like another world," Dudamel said.
“他们声称我们将穿越一条河底隧道,彼时我们不禁忖度:‘什么?’那俨然是另一个世界,”杜达梅尔说道。
"I still remember it vividly: before we reached the riverbank, I caught sight of the Twin Towers.
“我至今记忆犹新,在抵达河畔之前,我望见了双子塔。
Then the Statue of Liberty came into view, and afterwards they took us to the United Nations.
继而,自由女神像映入眼帘,随后他们领我们去了联合国。
Immediately after that, they took us to a toy store.
紧接着,他们又带我们去了玩具店。
It was as if we were in paradise."
我们恍若置身天堂。”
Dudamel's early schedule was nothing short of airtight.
杜达梅尔早期的日程安排堪称密不透风。
The concert that kicked off on September 10 at Radio City Music Hall was hosted by the actor Liev Schreiber, with artists such as Lizzo, St. Vincent, Joaquina, and Aaron Tveit all taking to the stage to perform.
9月10日于无线电城音乐厅揭幕的音乐会,由演员列维·施瑞博尔担纲主持,莉佐、圣文森特、华金娜与亚伦·特维特等艺人悉数登台献艺。
Afterward, the festivities relocated to the Rainbow Room, perched high above Manhattan, where they continued.
其后,庆祝活动移师曼哈顿高处的彩虹厅赓续举行。
"Gustavo Dudamel is by no means a man easily sketched," Schreiber candidly remarked to the concert audience.
“古斯塔沃·杜达梅尔绝非易于勾勒之人,”施瑞博尔向音乐会听众坦言。
"Picture, if you will, a teaspoon of Billy Joel, an ounce of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a cup of Tito Puente, into which is stirred a dash of Barbra Streisand."
“试想,于比利·乔尔之一茶匙、让-米歇尔·巴斯奎特之一盎司、蒂托·普恩特之一杯之中,调入些许芭芭拉·史翠珊。”
"How profound is the bond between music and moments such as these," Dudamel murmured.
“音乐与这般时刻的羁绊何其深邃,”杜达梅尔低语道。
"Music cannot rewrite what has already come to pass.
“音乐无从改写既成之事。
Yet when words cannot reach the shore we so desperately need, music sometimes can.
然而,当言语无法抵达我们亟需的彼岸时,音乐有时却能。
It can give sorrow a voice."
它能为悲伤赋予一种声音。”
"There are no borders, only bridges," Dudamel remarked.
“不存在边界,唯有桥梁,”杜达梅尔如是说。
"A symphony orchestra can equally immerse itself in pop, folk, and musical theatre.
“交响乐团同样能够沉浸于流行、民谣与音乐剧之中。
We all inhabit the same space.
我们皆置身于同一空间之内。
I believe this is precisely the message to be conveyed."
我以為,此即所要传递的讯息。”
Scarcely a month into his tenure, the orchestra was already set to depart on October 9 for a two-week European tour comprising ten concerts; thereafter, in November, it would return to Carnegie Hall—its home from 1891 to 1962—to perform a concert version of Puccini's Tosca.
履新甫及一月,乐团即定于10月9日启程,展开为期两周、共计十场的欧洲巡演;继而于11月重返其1891年至1962年间之驻地——卡内基音乐厅,献演普契尼《托斯卡》之音乐会版。
"The chemistry and the passion that he infused had a reach that was truly boundless," said Sherry Sylar, who has served as associate principal oboe since 1984.
“他所注入的那股化学反应与激情,其感染力可谓无远弗届,”自1984年起便担任副首席双簧管的谢里·赛勒如是说。
"During rehearsals, he would address the orchestra as 'my dears.'
“排练之际,他唤乐团为‘我亲爱的们’。
He would offer you constructive criticism, yet he invariably faced the entire orchestra with this form of address.
他会向你提出建设性的批评,却始终以这一称谓来面对整个乐团。
No one had ever done that before.
从来没有人这样做过。
It changed, more or less, the way you receive criticism or advice."
这或多或少改变了你接纳批评或建议的方式。”
Although he is typically provided with a private car and driver, Dudamel nonetheless takes to the streets of New York on foot, and whenever traffic becomes congested he will switch to the subway, all the while being recognized by passersby from time to time.
尽管通常配备专车与司机,杜达梅尔仍会安步当车于纽约街头,每逢交通壅塞之际更会转乘地铁,且不时为路人辨识。
Yet he still retains a touch of the traditionalist: preferring the listening experience of vinyl records to digital formats, he frequently visits the "Record Collector" shop on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles to enrich his collection.
然而,他仍不无几分传统做派:相较于数字载体,他更倾心于黑胶唱片的聆听体验,时常造访洛杉矶梅尔罗斯大道的“唱片收藏家”店铺以充实其收藏。
He identifies his first record as Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.
他自认其首张唱片为丹尼尔·巴伦博伊姆执棒芝加哥交响乐团演绎的柴可夫斯基《1812序曲》。
"I adore the sound quality that LPs deliver," Dudamel remarked, "yet I ruined quite a few of them, the reason being that I would constantly halt midway, inasmuch as I was at the time rehearsing in my capacity as a conductor.
“我钟爱密纹唱片所呈现的音质,”杜达梅尔说道,“然而我损毁了不少,缘由在于我每每中途停下,皆因我彼时正以指挥的身份进行排练。
My father was absolutely furious about it at the time."
家父当时为此勃然大怒。”
Dudamel has also put down roots in Madrid, though he has yet to decide whether to look for an apartment on the Upper West Side, adjacent to Lincoln Center where the orchestra is based, or in Chelsea downtown.
杜达梅尔亦已在马德里安家落户,惟其尚未决断究竟是在毗邻乐团驻地林肯中心的上西区,抑或是下城的切尔西街区寻觅寓所。
He has already become a devotee of several of the city's top restaurants, mentioning Cosme, Milos, Mercado Little Spain, and Casa Ora, known for its Venezuelan fare.
他已俨然成为这座城市若干顶尖餐厅的拥趸,并提及了Cosme、Milos、Mercado Little Spain,以及以委内瑞拉风味佳肴著称的Casa Ora。
Compared with the same period last year, ticket revenue for the current season has so far registered an 8% increase, while the number of seats sold in September climbed 20% over 2025.
相较于上年同期,本乐季迄今门票收入录得8%的增幅,9月份售出的座位数较2025年攀升20%。
Subscription package revenue reached $12.4 million, up from the previous $11.3 million.
订阅套票收入达1240万美元,较此前的1130万美元有所增长。
One of Dudamel's first initiatives upon taking up his new post was to relocate the second violins from his left to his right, so that they faced the first violins across the stage, while shifting the double basses from the right to the left—a configuration he had retained during his tenure in Los Angeles.
杜达梅尔履新后的首批举措之一,便是将第二小提琴声部自其左侧迁至右侧,与第一小提琴声部遥相对峙,同时将低音提琴从右侧调往左侧——此乃其执掌洛杉矶时所沿用的布局。
He likewise moved the entire orchestra further forward on the stage of David Geffen Hall and drew the sections into closer proximity to one another.
他亦将整支乐团移至大卫·格芬音乐厅舞台上更为靠前的位置,并令各声部席位彼此更为紧凑。
"It was as though we were immersed in a grand chamber-music work," the violinist Alina Ming Kobialka remarked.
“恍若置身于一部恢弘的室内乐作品之中,”小提琴手阿丽娜·明·科比阿尔卡如是说。
"The brass section was but a hair's breadth away from us, and that was a blessing."
“铜管声部与我们相距咫尺,此乃幸事。”
Dudamel signed a five-year contract, under the terms of which he will spend roughly fifteen weeks of each season with the orchestra.
杜达梅尔签署了一份为期五年的合约,据此每个乐季他将与乐团共度约15周的光阴。
On Labor Day, September 7, he held his first rehearsal and delivered a brief address to the musicians, among whom were not a few who had taken part in his New York Philharmonic debut.
9月7日劳动节当天,他进行了首次排练,并向音乐家们作了简短致辞,其中不乏曾参与其纽约爱乐乐团首演的人士。
Dudamel recounts that Lorin Maazel, who was then serving as music director, broke with convention by personally introducing him at his first rehearsal in 2007.
杜达梅尔忆述,彼时担任音乐总监的洛林·马泽尔一反惯例,于2007年他首次排练之际亲自出面将其引荐。
Dudamel was already well aware at the time that the orchestra had long been notorious for being difficult to work with.
杜达梅尔当时已然知晓,该乐团素以难以合作而著称。
"I was terrified beyond measure," he recalls of his thoughts at the time.
“我恐惧至极,”他追忆起彼时的念头。
"For those first few minutes, I was trembling all over.
“最初那几分钟,我浑身战栗。
Yet when all is said and done, what a magnificent and exquisite journey it has been."
然而归根结底,这是一段何其瑰丽而曼妙的旅程。”