On December 11, 2008, Dudamel performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts. Take a look at this young man: The young man standing on the conductor's stage in the concert hall of the National Center for the Performing Arts in China has a messy chestnut curly hair that

On December 11, 2008, Dudamel performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts

Look at this young man: The young man standing on the conductor's stage in the concert hall of the National Center for the Performing Arts in China has a messy chestnut curly hair, as if he is full of music. Numbers and musical notes; a pair of cute dimples, as if they were cartoon characters that just stepped out of comics. Yes, he looks like a legend.

Look, this magical boy in the orchestra pit raised the "magic wand" above his head and waved it gracefully. A magical world incarnated by music appeared in an instant. Following his conductor, the "magic wand" was drawn. The branches sprout and grow wildly, like the Wizard of Oz.

Who is he? He is the current master conductor in the eyes of the world's master conductors!

Dudamel performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts

He is "the most talented conductor" in the words of the world's master conductor Abbado ; in the opinion of Master Simon Rattle: "He is an astonishing musical genius"; Daniel Barenboim, a leading conductor of the generation, joked after listening to his performance: "It seems that I should learn to do something else, be a shoemaker or a carpenter, but I can never be a conductor anymore"; Deborah Borda, administrative director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, even made a bold prediction: "He will be the person who rewrites the history of music in the 21st century. Dudamel's era is coming."

Yes, this guy with a baby face is coming. The "magician" on the face is Dudamel - Venezuela Gustave Dudamel, the conductor of the "Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra", who was only 27 years old at the time (2008). In today's music scene, it enjoys a nickname that everyone knows and knows - "Visitor from the World". In fact, the birth of this young man is as legendary as Mars hitting the earth. In today's world of conductors, where white-haired people are absolutely the mainstream, his "emergence" brought many surprises to the world, especially the world music industry: at the age of 20, he won the first "Gustave Marx" award in one fell swoop. He won the gold medal in the "Conducting Competition"; he became the conductor of the century-old "Los Angeles Philharmonic" before he was still young; he was not even 30 years old, but his reputation and fame were already at the peak of his powers? No one can beat it.

On December 11, 2008, at the China National Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall, Dudamel led his "Magic Corps" - the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, using music to present a crazy and gorgeous magical world of music to the Chinese audience. .

However, who would have thought that the successful young Dudamel was once a poor kid wandering on the streets of Venezuela. His success was due to Venezuela's unique "music aid system." This system was established by the government in the 1970s to provide free music education specifically for the poor, covering a quarter of the country's teenagers. At that time, the five-year-old Dudamel was included in this system. From then on, he became associated with music and was out of control. His "Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra" is also a major result of this system.

Dudamel once said, "I am with the Bolivarian Orchestra, and the people in the orchestra are my partners and friends since childhood. When you were a child, crime, drugs and despair were performed around you every day, and sin was so close to you. It is music that gives us a way out, allowing us to stay away from all this, all this misery, and have a completely different life. "

Art changes life. This is the true story of Dudamel and his friends, and it is also the value concept that China National Center for the Performing Arts has always adhered to. Perhaps because of this, the young Dudamel fell in love with the Chinese Theater. He learned that from the first day of its birth, the National Center for the Performing Arts of China has launched a large-scale "drip irrigation project" to popularize art: 60 million is used from the performance box office every year to feed back the popularization of art and education dissemination; it plans and organizes every year There are more than 1,000 various popularization activities, treating the general public equally, insisting on cultivating one seedling after another, and cultivating one person at a time; carefully creating a series of characteristic brands for the popularization of art - "Weekend Concerts", "Classic Art" "Lecture Hall", "Into the World of Records", "Master Workshop", the water flows slowly and moistens things silently.This talented master was deeply moved by this.

He said that the "Drip Irrigation Project" of China's National Center for the Performing Arts is similar to Venezuela's "Music Aid System". The Grand Theater is doing something of great merit.

"Art can change a person's destiny. The distance between different life trajectories may be just a violin " - Dudamel.

I hope that our popular music education can be "practical and ambitious" and bring art closer to people's daily lives.