Email This
New talks are released daily. Be the first to know!
Video RSS
|
Additional RSS Options You either have JavaScript turned off or have an old version of the Adobe Flash Player. To view this video you
need to get the latest Flash player.
If you are on a mobile device, you may be able to download the video to play.
If your browser allows only "trusted sites" to execute Javascript, you should add the "googleapis.com" domain to your whitelist to allow our Flash detection to work properly.
TED Conversations
Got an idea, question, or debate inspired by this talk? Start a TED Conversation, or join one of these:
-
Should the minimum age a person could vote be lowered or raised and if so to what age?
Started by Michelle Rosenthal 8 Comments -
Celebrating 5 years of TED video: What's your favorite TEDTalk?
Started by Emily McManus 15 Comments
Interactive Transcript
Click on any phrase to play the video from that point.
Chris Anderson: And now we go live to Caracas to see one of Maestro Abreu's great proteges. He is the new musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He's the greatest young conductor in the world. Gustavo Dudamel! (Applause) (Music) (Applause) Gustavo Dudamel: Hi everybody in L.A. Hi Quincy. Hi Maestro Zander. Hi Mark. We are very happy to have the possibility to be with you in the other side of the world. We can speak only with music. We are very happy because we have the opportunity to have this angel in the world -- not only in our country, Venezuela, but in our world. He has given us the possibility to have dreams and to make true the dreams. And here are the results of this wonderful project that is The System in Venezuela. We hope to have, our Maestro, to have orchestras in all the countries in all Americas. And we want to play a little piece for you by one of the most important composers of America. A Mexican composer: Arturo Marquez. "Danzon No. 2." (Music) (Applause)
About The Speaker
The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra is the national high-school-age youth orchestra of El Sistema, made up of the best young musicians from throughout Venezuela. Gustavo Dudamel, himself a product of El Sistema, is the new musical director of the LA Philharmonic.
Full bio and more links
About This Talk
The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2.
What to Watch Next
Subscribe to TED
Related Themes And Tags
This comment will be attributed to . Not ? Sign out.