On Thursday, longtime Dodgers announcer Vin Scully, who retired last season at age 89, “joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel in the first of two performances at the Hollywood Bowl,” writes Randy Lewis in Saturday’s (7/15) Los Angeles Times. “As he will again do on Tuesday, Scully narrated powerful words from the nation’s 16th president that composer Aaron Copland incorporated into his 1942 work ‘Lincoln Portrait.’ … ‘They invited me to do it, and my first thought was, “Whoa, that’s kind of out of the ballpark for me,” ‘ Scully said Friday…. A common love for sports provided the initial common ground between Scully and Dudamel. ‘He’s a rabid baseball fan,’ Scully said…. ‘We just hit it off immediately…. The tone in my voice was affected and dictated by the music…. The orchestra is behind you, and it’s like a gigantic tidal wave. It fills you and whisks you away…. My feeling was I was an amateur amongst Hall of Famers.’ … The performance was recorded and is scheduled to be broadcast July 30 on KUSC-FM (91.5) along with the rest of the program,” which included Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Posted July 17, 2017
Pictured: Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and long-time Dodgers sportscaster Vin Scully at the Hollywood Bowl. Photo by Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
