Gustavo Dudamel has had a lot of chances to make a first impression on the podium of the New York Philharmonic — as rookie phenom, visiting superstar, anointed future music director, and now the orchestra’s not–yet–but–de facto artistic boss. (He will finally take over officially a year from now.) Dudamel filled the first two weeks of the season with a generous vision of America, leading works by the 20th-century New Englander Charles Ives, the unassimilated immigrant Béla Bartók, the 87-year-old New Yorker John Corigliano, and the young(ish) native Hawaiian Leilehua Lanzilotti. What unites them, and evidently excites Dudamel, is their disparateness — not just the range of backgrounds and time periods but the way they define American music as a great amalgamation. There was no need for exp

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