Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel directs The New York Philharmonic during the 2024 Spring Gala at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 24, 2024. Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel presented a youth-oriented, pop culturally aware vision of the future to the New York Philharmonic's spring gala April 24, 2024, a preview of his forthcoming takeover of the symphony as its incoming director. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)