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An orchestral dance-off from the Sinfónica Juvenil “Teresa Carreño": El Sistema at La Scala

By James Imam, 25 August 2015
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“A steady tempo found its propulsion in snapping snare and chippy xylophone”
Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 24 August 2015
Programme
Bernstein, Candide: Overture
Carreño, Margariteña
Chávez, Symphony No. 2, 'Sinfonia India'
Verdi, Nabucco: Va Pensiero, chorus of the Hebrew slaves
Performers
Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Christian Vásquez, Conductor
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.