Program:
Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2
Castellanos Santa Cruz de Pacairigua
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Artist Information:
The evening performance with Simón Bolívar is sold out, but tickets are now available to the open rehearsal. PLEASE NOTE that this is not a
full performance, but a chance to observe
Maestro Dudamel and the orchestra in preparation for their evening performance.
Featured on CBS' 60 Minutes after their sold-out series of concerts at Carnegie Hall, where tickets were scalped for up to $1,000, the 180-member
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra is
the flagship ensemble of Venezuela's unique and inspiring music education system. For 30 years, "El Sistema" has been making classical musicians out of a
quarter-million young Venezuelan students,
transforming the lives of the nation's poorest youths. Among its most shining alumni is the dazzling young conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who is taking the
classical music world by storm and was recently
named Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Audiences around the world cannot get enough of the youth orchestra with their "youthful enthusiasm,
technical finesse, and well-honed precision"
(The New York Times).
