Gaffigan conducts "LA Phil Fills the Bowl with Sophisticated Rhythms"

James conducted the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl on August 22. Here are some snippets from the San Francisco Classical Voice review highlighting James:

Some conductors are uncomfortable with the wide-open spaces of the Hollywood Bowl. Not James Gaffigan. He had a grand time Thursday interacting with his audience, leading them in round of “Happy Birthday” for his daughter, Sofia, and conducting the members of the LA Phil…

Gaffigan offered a leisurely journey through [Appalachian Spring]. It was gentle, panoramic, as nostalgic as postcards from another time…

To end the concert Gaffigan cast away his baton in favor of dance-like hand gestures as he and the orchestra went Uptown for the performance of Ellington’s 1950 symphonic jazz poem, Harlem.”

— San Francisco Classical Voice