Move over Simón Bolívar: a new youth orchestra is on its way | Tom Service

The famous Venezuelan musicians are growing long in the tooth – and there's a new generation waiting in the wingsThe Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra is youthful no longer – as I was saying last week in my review of their concert with Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Easter festival. Their blurb says the musicians are between 17 and 25 years old, but I would guess the average age of these brilliant Venezuelans is somewhere in the late 20s. Mere pedantry? Not really. The Bolívar...

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