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Author Tunstall, Tricia.

Title Changing lives : Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the transformative power of music / Tricia Tunstall.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  780.7108 TUNSTALL    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  780.71 TUN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  780.71 TUNSTALL    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  780.71087 TU    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Prelude : Gustavo and me -- Bienvenido Gustavo! : Hollywood's unlikely new star -- "Mambo!" : a first glimpse of El Sistema -- To play and to struggle : the evolution of El Sistema -- Dancing with cellos : the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela -- An idea worth spreading -- "Being, not yet being" : El Sistema in action -- Faces of El Sistema USA -- Gracias Gustavo : healing communities in Los Angeles -- Coda : Loving needy children well.
Summary Reveals the effect that education can have on positive social change by examining the life of a conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the unique program that nurtured his talent back home in Venezuela and its current availability in the U.S.
Subject Music -- Instruction and study -- Venezuela.
Music -- Instruction and study -- United States.
Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela -- History.
Dudamel, Gustavo -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 9780393078961 hardcover
0393078965 hardcover
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