At 28, Dudamel is a toddler compared with his colleagues at major orchestras around the world.
It's the same organization that gave birth to the current Los Angeles Philharmonic music director, Gustavo Dudamel.
The funeral began with Venezuela's national youth orchestra singing the national anthem, led by famed conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
Dudamel took a gracious unhurried tempo, which was elegant and beautiful, but did not evoke the majestic force of an ocean.
Dudamel conducted with uncommon focus, providing us with a unique aural experience.
Honour guards were made up of prominent Venezuelans, including student leaders and baseball players, Formula One driver Pastor Maldonado and conductor Carlos Dudamel.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, led by Gustavo Dudamel, sounded harsh and percussive in Mr. Adams's aggressive score.
Before Dudamel landed the L.A. Philharmonic job, orchestra president Deborah Borda followed him around for two years and watched him work with orchestras across Europe.
Venezuelan-born Dudamel is himself a product of El Sistema, and is also music director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the flagship of El Sistema.
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Dudamel, as always, brought absolute clarity to the highly complex score and he made sure that not a moment of the work (well over two hours long) slumped.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale, directed by Grant Gershon, sings with power and precision, and the orchestra under Dudamel plays the difficult score with wonderful spirit and grace.
But among all the nominees in this year's Latin Grammys, an album that deserves several awards is Fiesta by Gustavo Dudamel, conducting the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
The work had its East Coast premiere Wednesday night at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by its music director Gustavo Dudamel.
Dudamel kicked off his tenure with the L.A. Phil Saturday night with a free performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 before an audience of nearly 18, 000 at the Hollywood Bowl.
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