Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra a shining example of how music can lift underprivileged young ...

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The orchestra is renowned for its full-blooded performances, yet yesterday evening it felt that the stakes were higher than usual for the ensemble that first captured the imagination of British ...

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The longest and perhaps most ambitious of Mahler’s symphonies, the premiere of the composer's third symphony received a 15-minute ovation during which Mahler was called to return to the ...

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and music from Dudamel and his orchestra's native Venezuela - an off-road trip and an odyssey across the entire country. Show more Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and ...

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This was the second of two concerts celebrating the 50th anniversary of El Sistema, Venezuela’s innovative musical education initiative. Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of ...

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel and Arab states in mid-February, a State Department official said, making his first trip to the Middle East after a widely condemned proposal ...

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Gustavo Dudamel returns to the hall at the head of his ‘other’ orchestra: the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. There’s just one work, but Mahler’s mighty Symphony No 3 is a stand-alone masterpiece.