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Gustavo Dudamel Biography

Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born January 26, 1981) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist. He is the music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

Crying, People, See, Tickets, Venezuela

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.

Naked, Play, Simple

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

Children, Eight, Hours, Orchestra, Tchaikovsky

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

Children, Energy, Learn, Listen, Orchestra

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

Big, Big Families, Family, Orchestra, Want, Work

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

Expression, Opportunity, Play, Violin, Young

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out. ' It's really amazing.

Concert, Dudamel, Friends, Impossible, People, Want

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.

Challenges, Day, Different, Returning, Spiritual, Symphony

Music is a fundamental human right

Fundamentals, Human, Humans, Music, Music Is, Right

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

Love, Nice, Sometimes, Stay, Travel

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

Cities, Ethnic, Los, Los Angeles, Special

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

Change, People, Special, Stage, Things Change

I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies

Life, Lying, Musical, Studied, Things, Years

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa. ' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

Cds, Home, Listen, Love, Tchaikovsky

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!

Coming, Community, Difficult, Journey, Long

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

Mean, Music, Rights, Way, Whereby

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

Angeles, Eaten, Los, Los Angeles, Marvelously, Wells

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.

Book, Literature, Philosophy, Read, Reading, Subjects

My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

Dedication, Development, Early, London, Patience, Times

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.

Art, Child, Children, Close, Goal

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