Monday
Feb202012
Gustavo Dudamel and Elmo: Not Quite Stupendous. But Fun.
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 11:03PM
The Los Angeles Philharmonic's wunderkind conductor Gustavo Dudamel ticked off the first of the two major pop icon checkmarks (the other would be being namechecked on The Simpsons) when he got an appearance with Sesame Street's Elmo to discuss the word "stupendous."
"Stupendous" means "great and amazing," and while I'm not sure that it's quite that cool, the bit is fun. Little known fact: Ludwig van Beethoven originally scored the last movement of his Fifth Symphony for penguin choir, so Dudamel's just reverting to the composer's intentions here.
tagged Elmo, Gustavo Dudamel, Sesame Street, classical music in Classical Music