Gifts at Changing The Present

VENEZUELA: A New Life for At-Risk Kids, and Music Too!

by Humberto Márquez , IPS Inter Press Service - Culture, Religion, Sport on Aug 24, 2007

CARACAS, Aug 24 (IPS) - On tour in Germany after performing to rave reviews
at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London, the members of
Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra and its
wild-haired conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, have made a remarkable
journey from their less than promising social origins.


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