169 musicians who are members of the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela (Sniv), under the baton of maestro Gustavo Dudamel, will perform at four festivals. The orchestra will embark on its second international tour of this year, from July 25 to August 9, 2024.
Eduardo Méndez, executive director of El Sistema, reflected on the importance of this new challenge that the fifth national selection of Sniv will take on, with musicians between 11 and 16 years old, which had its international debut in Switzerland, in April 2023. .
Méndez said that this tour “has primarily to do with the invitation to the youth orchestra festival at Carnegie Hall, where orchestras from various parts of the world participate. This represents for El Sistema a showcase that shows what has been the evolution of its musical methodology in recent years.”
The tour of four cities will begin with two presentations at the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, under the Citizens of the World concept. The first concert of the festival will be on Sunday, July 28, at 5:30 pm.
The next day, Monday the 29th, at 5:30 pm, the Venezuelan delegation will return to the same stage, to perform the works: Short ride in a fast machine by John Adams, Mediodía en el llano by Antonio Estévez, Four dances by Estancia de Alberto Ginastera; Fanfare and Olympic Theme by John Williams and Symphony No. 5 by Dmitri Shostakovich.
The musical director of El Sistema, Gustavo Dudamel, for his part, said: “I played in the first national children’s team that traveled in 1995, I was one of those first violinists who lived that experience and seeing this generation with this artistic level is go back to the beginning of a whole. Seeing this new selection playing a repertoire like Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, which we dreamed of playing in 94, but which we performed about five years later when we were already young, then this shows me that this tour is very important. ”, he assured on the occasion of the tour announcement.
On Friday, August 2, the presentation will be at the Stern Auditorium, Perelman Stage of Carnegie Hall, and on Monday, August 5, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, a community wildlife sanctuary, where ideas in business and pop culture converge under one ceiling. The next day, the Venezuelan artists will perform at the Ravinia Festival, summer residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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2024-07-30 02:29:57
