Travel Pick: Classical Music in France
Gustavo Dudamel To Lead Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France In Paris

Superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel, in many ways classical music's equivalent to the American Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a program of 20th century music. The young Venezuelan maestro is the product of the highly regarded Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Child Orchestras of Venezuela ("El Sistema") whose founder, the Venezuelan musician, educator and economist Dr. José Antonio Abreu, was awarded recently the Glenn Gould Prize.

Programme:
Zoltan Kodaly: Danses de Galanta
Shostakovitch: Violin Concerto
Stravinsky: Firebird (1919 version)

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Nikolaj Znaider: violin
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor