古斯塔沃杜达梅尔古典音乐界下一位天才.docVIP

古斯塔沃杜达梅尔古典音乐界下一位天才 　　When conductor Gustavo Dudamel 1)mounted the 2)podium in his debut with the New York 3)Philharmonic in November, 2007, he was carrying something special. Moments before he went onstage for the first of four concerts, the orchestra’s 4)archivist went to his dressing room to lend him a 5)baton used by Leonard 　　Bernstein注1. “I could not speak,” says Dudamel. And he was speechless again, near the end of his last 　　concert, when the baton suddenly snapped in two. But it wasn’t a bad 6)omen ? even without that 7)talisman, the comparisons to Bernstein (who broke plenty of 　　batons himself) were starting to stick. 　　Only 27, Dudamel is a hugely talented conductor whose 8)infectious delight in music echoes Bernstein’s 　　electric 9)appeal. But it’s more than his 10)charisma, says Deborah Borda, the president of the Los Angeles 　　Philharmonic, who signed Dudamel to become its 　　music director in 2009. As violinist Gil Shaham, the 11)soloist for the New York concerts, puts it, “With Gustavo, the 12)chops are all there. The technique, the 13)mastery ? he has it all.” 　　Since the Venezuelan wonder boy won an 　　international competition in Germany in 2004, he’s 　　created a 14)sensation in classical music. Simon Rattle of the Berlin Philharmonic called him “the most astonishingly 　　gifted conductor I’ve come across.” 　　The son of a 15)trombone player, Dudamel grew up with music. He recalls finding a yellowed book on 16)sight reading ?“it was a small book with a wonderful smell” ? in his father’s library when he was four or five, and he began to teach himself. Later he’d set up Lego注2 　　figures, put on a Tchaikovsky or Beethoven album and conduct the toys. His formal training began via 　　Venezuela’s music program known as “El Sistema注3”, 　　which puts instruments into the hands of 250,000 kids yearly, many from poor families. Dudamel played violin but started conducting around the age of 12. By 17 he was leading the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, the best in th