Event listing: Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela - The Big Concert | Old Schools Site | Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 19:45

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Old Schools SiteDrip Road, Raploch, Raploch, Scotland, FK8 1RR, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Festival: London 2012 Festival

Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Eroica", Op.55
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Egmont, Op.84: Overture
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	Abdelazer, Z 570: Overture

Performers

Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel	Conductor
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See The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 in

Paris, France Glasgow, United Kingdom Winterthur, Switzerland

El Sistema demonstrated in Stirling

David Smythe, 21st June

Can a concert have ever been so eagerly anticipated? In 2006 Richard Holloway, then chair of the Scottish Arts Council, went on a fact-finding visit to Venezuela to look at El Sistema, where intensive classical music tuition in schools and the formation of orchestras has developed a successful track record of transforming attitudes in desperately poor and violent communities.

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