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PAGE  PAGE 7 The Venezuelan Music Education Model: An Instrument for Social Change in California? (follow-up to Tocar y Luchar—To Play and to Fight: The Venezuelan System that Produced LA’s Next Great Conductor) Dr. Diana Hollinger Coordinator of Music Education San José State University LA Symposium By now, everyone has heard that the young Venezuelan conducting sensation, Gustavo Dudamel, will be taking the Los Angeles Philharmonic baton from Esa-Pekka Salonen in 2009. He will be 28 at that time. This surprising announcement last spring followed a meteoric rise to world fame for Du