Orchestral
manoeuvres

Simon
Rattle describes him as 'the most astonishingly gifted conductor he has ever met'.
And yet 26-year-old Gustavo Dudamel grew up in poverty in Venezuela. Ed Vulliamy
tells the story of El Sistema - a remarkable youth project which uses Beethoven
and Brahms to save the children of the barrios

Sunday July 29, 2007

The Observer