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Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh from winning a Grammy.
Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy.

Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy.
Opera superstar Placido Domingo is getting ready to conduct 35 New York City schoolchildren who are studying music five days a week under a program inspired by Venezuela's acclaimed youth orchestra program, El Sistema.
Gustavo Dudamel stands off to the side of a teen orchestra as they laboriously rehearse Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5.

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel's passion for music education is on display in a new PBS special.
"It's an enormous honor for me to be part of this family."
"At a personal level, it's a huge challenge, physically just as much as mentally," Dudamel said on Thursday while attending several separate performances by Venezuelan youth and children orchestras. "It isn't easy, but it's wonderful."