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1. Venezuela has a huge community orchestra system.

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 06:21 PM

Jul 2012

Which has produced Gustavo Dudamel. Thirty years old and he is appointed the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one of the premier orchestras in the United States.

Yet we cut back funding for arts and music education in the U.S. because we can't afford it.

http://www.rundschau-online.de/image/view/2011/0/28/15342610,12607856,dmData,Gustavo+Dudamel+%25281295936920106%2529.jpg

Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, performing Leonard Bernstein's "Mambo" from West Side Story:

http://www.ask.com/videos/watch-video/gustavo-dudamel-conducting-the-sim-n-bol-var-youth-orchestra-the-guardian/9ayZfwvVUs-gS0pFpJAD9A?o=15527&l=dis&ver=11&domain=ask.com

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