He became the conductor of Venezuela's junior orchestras, and today conducts the world's greatest orchestras.

Orchestras play Taking your breath away

Stalin s empire needed no foreign classical orchestras.

Because American orchestras can t count on schools or government to provide the basic music education necessary to ensure a continuing audience for classical music, some orchestras are doing it themselves with private money.

This type of innovative program is relevant for European as well as American orchestras.

To this end, the White Guard chapters had several hundred choirs, orchestras and theatre groups.

He mentioned four great world orchestras, and the fifth one was Venezuela's Youth Symphony Orchestra.

And I have to say, many of them now in the professional orchestras throughout the world.

We hope to have, our Maestro, to have orchestras in all the countries in all Americas.

Performing arts advocates in Europe point to the US where, among other things, music directors of even major orchestras are now expected to fully participate in fundraising activities and be active in the local community on the orchestras behalf.

If orchestras don t look after their own futures, they may well not have one to look after.

I promised those 11 children I'd turn our orchestra into one of the leading orchestras in the world.

In the personal social circle, the children in the orchestras and choirs develop their intellectual and emotional side.

And I remember at the beginning of my career, again and again, on these dismal outings with orchestras,

He is the musical director of Los Angeles Philharmonic, and is still the overall leader of Venezuela's junior orchestras.

I've worked with chamber orchestras and ballet dancers and pop star and opera singers, and I've identified the thread that links them.

The UK is also home to world renowned symphonic orchestras and choruses such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Chorus.

September is traditionally the time when opera companies and orchestras return to their home cities from Aix, Salzburg, Tanglewood, and countless other summer festivals.

Finally, in the circle of the community, the orchestras prove to be the creative spaces of culture and sources of exchange and new meanings.

The idea is that the families join with pride and joy in the activities of the orchestras and the choirs that their children belong to.

And rather than go into statistics and trends, and tell you about all the orchestras that are closing, and the record companies that are folding,

And we started by making instruments for some of the world's greatest performers we call these hyperinstruments for Yo Yo Ma, Peter Gabriel, Prince, orchestras, rock bands.

Michael Tilson Thomas in San Francisco, for example, has combined effective fundraising and artistic leadership to propel the San Francisco Symphony to the top rank of US orchestras.

I decided to face the challenge, and on that same night, I promised those 11 children I'd turn our orchestra into one of the leading orchestras in the world.

A malign example is Philip Morris s donation of money to museums, symphony orchestras, and opera houses, cynically aimed at buying off artists who might otherwise work to ban cigarettes.

And rather than go into statistics and trends, and tell you about all the orchestras that are closing, and the record companies that are folding, I thought we should do an experiment tonight an experiment.

One of them is in elite art since the 1930s say, the kinds of works performed by major symphony orchestras, where most of the repertory is before 1930, or the works shown in major galleries and prestigious museums.

One of them is in elite art since the 1930s say, the kinds of works performed by major symphony orchestras, where most of the repertory is before 1930, or the works shown in major galleries and prestigious museums.

And I remember at the beginning of my career, again and again, on these dismal outings with orchestras, I would be going completely insane on the podium, trying to engender a small scale crescendo really, just a little upsurge in volume.

I get to write, sometimes for soloists and I get to work with one person, sometimes full orchestras, and I work with a lot of people, and this is probably the capacity, the role creatively for which I'm probably best known professionally.

And we started by making instruments for some of the world's greatest performers we call these hyperinstruments for Yo Yo Ma, Peter Gabriel, Prince, orchestras, rock bands. Instruments where they're all kinds of sensors built right into the instrument, so the instrument knows how it's being played.

Serious book stores are losing their franchise, nonprofit theaters are surviving primarily by commercializing their repertory, symphony orchestras are diluting their programs, public television is increasing its dependence on reruns of British sitcoms, classical radio stations are dwindling, museums are resorting to blockbuster shows, dance is dying.

I am overjoyed today at being awarded the TED Prize on behalf of all the distinguished music teachers, artists and educators from Venezuela who have selflessly and loyally accompanied me for 35 years in founding, growing and developing in Venezuela the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs.

I think we ought to approach this challenge with a sense of profound joy and gratitude that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.