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Changing Lives
Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
By Tunstall, Tricia
- ISBN
- 978-0-39307-896-1
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on September 15, 2011
Gustavo Dudamel, the young and exuberant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, is the most famous graduate of El Sistema, the remarkable music education program in Venezuela, whose laudable purpose is to use the experience of orchestral playing as a means of giving new meaning to the lives of impoverished children. The twin goals of equal access and artistic excellence have resulted in dozen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
