Saturday, April 12, 2014
Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues
NYTimes.com: On Feb. 12, the charismatic Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel led a youth orchestra in Caracas to celebrate the 39th anniversary of El Sistema, the government-supported program that has organized hundreds of thousands of children across Venezuela into instrumental ensembles, serving as a model of using music education for social uplift. As the performance was underway, a crackdown on peaceful demonstrations was being enforced in the streets. People were protesting the policies of President Nicolás Maduro’s government, along with the pervasive crime, crippling inflation and scarcities that plague Venezuela today.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
To be fair to Mr. Dudamel and Gergiev, I am sure that they did not reach where they are now without having a measure of politic in them. And as much as I abhor the current russian attitude towards gays and other non standard genders, the LGBTQA+ group does seem to be attacking the wrong thing here in America, their protests of these musicians and coke during the Olympics seem to be targeting the wrong people or groups to really affect change. While these artists im sure would do what any normal person would do in protest of these issues, I am sad that they have come under fire for not sacrificing their positions that they have worked for, when another group of people claims they arnt doing enough for them, how is that fair?
Post a Comment