Talk about bicoastal. On January 25, the New York Philharmonic’s music and artistic director designate Gustavo Dudamel leads the orchestra’s first-ever concert at Radio City Music Hall—a pops potpourri with bonbons by Tchaikovsky; the Waltz King Johann Strauss II and his short-lived, more-talented brother Joseph; Gershwin; Bernstein; and more. Fasten your seatbelts for the maiden voyage of the hall’s spanking-new intergalactic Sphere Immersive Sound system, comprised (we’re told) of 1,600 permanent and 300 mobile HOLOPLOT X1 Matrix Array loudspeaker modules, incorporating 167,000 individually amplified loudspeaker drivers. Then it’s back to the late Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Hall in the Big Orange for further chapters of Dudamel’s long goodbye after 17 years as music and artistic director of the LA Phil. Though Beethoven’s not billed as the presiding spirit of Gustavo’s four-week residency, he ought to be. For full details, consult the Web site, but here are teasers. February 12–15: Incidental music from Egmont, with new narration by Jeremy O. (Slave Play) Harris, spoken by Cate Blanchett. February 20–22: The Olympian Missa Solemnis; rarely played, a certified religious experience (seriously). February 26–March 1: Beethoven’s Seventh, which the composer on at least one occasion called his “most excellent symphony” and Richard Wagner hailed as “the Apotheosis of the Dance.” March 5–8: Beethoven’s Sixth, the “Pastoral,” animated by Disney in 1940 as part of Fantasia (which apparently will not be screened on this occasion). Except for the Missa Solemnis, all programs include ambitious musical adventures of our time, including a tranche of Thomas Adès’s cosmic Dante, major world premieres from Ricardo Lorenz and Gabriela Ortiz. Also in the mix: that young poet of the keyboard Yunchan Lim in Schumann’s beguiling Piano Concerto. —Matthew Gurewitsch

Tickets for the January 25 performance in New York City—New York Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel at Radio City Music—can be accessed here