Name: Nguyễn Quỳnh Hương

ID: 1581665

The report about Berliner Philharmoniker and Conductor Gustavo Dudamel -

From the Waldbühne Berlin 2014
“The evening is likely to go down as the coolest conducting debut in the history of the orchestra,” wrote
the critic of the Tagesspiegel after the Waldbühne concert in June 2008. The man whose debut was
described in such glowing terms was the then 27-year-old Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel who delighted
press and public alike with a Spanish-South American programme. Even when he conducted the Berliner
Philharmoniker for the first time that evening, he was no stranger to the musicians. An alumnus of “El
Sistema”, Venezuela’s now world famous musical education programme, he had already made an
appearance at the invitation of the orchestra in Berlin with the Venezuelan youth symphony orchestra,
plus he had participated in an Orchestra Academy project and in a concert with members of the
Philharmoniker. Since this spectacular debut, Gustavo Dudamel’s career has skyrocketed. He is currently
music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of
Venezuela, plus he is a coveted guest with major international orchestras. He is also to be found
conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker on a regular basis.

And not only that: the orchestra is more than happy to invite him to conduct concert events which
attract a lot of media attention. His Waldbühne debut was followed by the New Year’s Eve concert in
2010, then the European concert in Vienna in 2012 and another Waldbühne concert in 2014. This season
too, he is conducting the end-of-season concert in the open-air arena in Berlin. The programme features
music by Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. “Wagner’s music contains innumerable elements of
nature, so the Waldbühne is a perfect place to perform it,” Dudamel reveals in an interview for 128 ─
das magazin der Berliner Philharmoniker. In his opinion, open-air concerts offer a great advantage:
“They give a large audience the opportunity to listen to outstanding works performed by excellent
musicians.” The Berliner Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel will also go on a short concert tour of
Europe with the Waldbühne concert programme. A concert in the Berlin Philharmonie started of this
year’s collaboration between orchestra and conductor: the programme includes Antonín Dvořák’s
Symphony “From the New World” and has been broadcast in cinemas on 9 June.

This is my first time attending a concert of these 2 artists. it gave me a lot of impression, especially the
first song of the summer night: The Tempest. Opening the concert with a soft music and melodious
notes, it gave me a new feeling when starting the concert. Not only that, those low notes gave me a new
taste in music, it led me into a new world, that day I listened very attentively to the concert, even
though it was just a short time through the Computer screen beacause of the Covid-19 pandemic.

I hope to participate in such a concert in the future