Venezuelan - Musician | January 26, 1981 -
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
Gustavo Dudamel
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I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
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In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
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I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.
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Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'
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I live day by day.
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You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
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With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
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For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.
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You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.
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Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
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We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.
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