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The blog of conductor Jason Weinberger

‘Sistema’-tic excellence

We are rehearsing Alberto Ginastera’s Estancia at the WCFSO this week, and as we work on imbuing it with as much rhythmic vitality and exuberance as possible I’ve suggested that everyone spend some time with these dynamic performances of the piece by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. I intended to post one of them here as well, until I stumbled across this from another of Venezuela’s El Sistema youth orchestras:

Bravo to TED for highlighting the Teresa Carreños, and to The Rambler for the link – whoa is right!