Maestro Abreu always said something very, very beautiful. He said, “The culture for poor people cannot be a poor culture.” You know, and he said in the sense that for the poor people, for the people that needs, we have to give the best, the best that we can.
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Gustavo Dudamel
Conductor; Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Venezuela · b. 1981
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Venezuelan conductor, brought up in El Sistema, the publicly funded Venezuelan music education programme founded by José Antonio Abreu. He led the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra from the age of eighteen, won the Bamberg Mahler Competition in 2004, and became Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009.
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I will say it’s very in a way looks very physical. You know, it’s like a dance. At the end, you are moving your hands in front of an orchestra, your arms, but it’s like a choreography, and that is, that is a dance part of, of conducting. … But at the end, yes, is something that starts from that, but then it gets very deep in a very, I will say philosophical, metaphysical, psychological thing, conducting—more than. Spiritual. It’s more than moving your hands in front of an orchestra and the people watching you jump or move or do these kind of things, it’s something very spiritual, that is right.
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