Review: Tchaikovsky on a grand scale

The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky at Walt Disney Concert Hall led by Gustavo Dudamel.Orchestras everywhere play a lot of Tchaikovsky. The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, its musicians raised on the Russian composer, plays a whole lot of Tchaikovsky, as it has been doing this week in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Tchaikovsky-Fest. "Playing" is maybe what these still-young musicians (17 to 31) did when they were children in El Sistema, Venezuela's nation...

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