Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic tonight in Danville, Ky., a town of 18,000 right in the middle of thoroughbred country. Earlier in the day, the Venezuelan maestro will be given the title of Kentucky Colonel.
The story of how this hard-to-imagine event in Bluegrass Country came about is difficult to unravel partly because it's been a long time in the making but also because everyone we interviewed had a rather annoying habit of giving the credit to someone else.
Click here to read the LA Times' take on how this came to be.