Now Conducting LA

Young Venezuelan conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, becomes the music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/06/dudamel.orchestra/index.html

Dudamel is definitely one of the most (if not, the most) talented persons to come out of Venezuela in recent years, and was the director for Venezuela's well-known national youth orchestra. Here's a clip from a few years ago of them playing Alma Llanera, which one could consider Venezuela's national song:



Felicitaciones, Gustavo!