i think i grew up in an musical environment. it was part of my life. i wanted to be a salsa player, like my father. can you dance salsa? yes, ican. i love to dance. it is part of. i think it is part of our culture. and i grew up listening to my father playing salsa, he still plays with his band and all of that. but then there was a moment when, you know, iwent to a symphonic concert and i got in love, you know, with a dimension of that world. at the age of ten, gustavo took up the violin and joined a music education programme called el sistema in venezuela set up by his mentor jose antonio abreu, and his talent on the violin put him on the fast track to fame. by his mid 20s, he was a superstar, performing for pope benedict s 80th
i think i grew up in an musical environment. it was part of my life. i wanted to be a salsa player, like my father. can you dance salsa? yes, ican. i love to dance. it is part of. i think it is part of our culture. and i grew up listening to my father playing salsa, he still plays with his band and all of that. but then there was a moment when, you know, iwent to a symphonic concert and i got in love, you know, with a dimension of that world. at the age of ten, gustavo took up the violin and joined a music education programme called el sistema in venezuela set up by his mentor jose antonio abreu, and his talent on the violin put him on the fast track to fame.
he has even started. i don t know if classical music need saving, i think it needs advocating, and it needs a kind of contagious enthusiasm to tell people that it is for everybody. gustavo symbolises that, there are very few people at his level. gustavo s confidence as a musician came at an early age. he was born in barquisimeto in venezuela to a father who was a professional trombone player and a mother who was a voice teacher. i think i grew up in an musical environment. it was part of my life. i wanted to be a salsa player, like my father. can you dance salsa? yes, ican. i love to dance. it is part of. i think it is part of our culture. and i grew up listening to my father playing salsa, he still plays with his band and all of that. but then there was a moment when, you know, i went to a symphonic concert and i got in love, you know, with a dimension of that world.
over into the audience, musicians also spills over into the audience, and what we have been seeing for the performance of tosca when he shows up in the pit, he already gets an ovation before he has even started. i don t know if classical music need saving, i think it needs advocating, and it needs a kind of contagious enthusiasm to tell people that it is for everybody. gustavo symbolises that, there are very few people at his level. gustavo s confidence as a musician came at an early age. he was born in barquisimeto in venezuela to a father who was a professional trombone player and a mother who was a voice teacher. i think i grew up in an musical environment. it was part of my life. i wanted to be a salsa player, like my father. can you dance salsa? yes, ican. i love to dance. it is part of. i think it is part of our culture. and i grew up listening to my father playing salsa,