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Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Eduardo Mendez

Music Matters: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, El Sistema, Ulster Orchestra

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06/12/2014

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, El Sistema, Ulster Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, El Sistema, Ulster Orchestra

Tom Service presents. With Pierre-Laurent Aimard and a new book on Venezuela's El Sistema.

Tom Service talks to pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and discusses a controversial new book about Venezuela's El Sistema with its director, Eduardo Mendez, and author Geoffrey Baker.

Tom Service talks to Pierre-Laurent Aimard about modernist repertoire for the piano, and discusses a polemical new book 'El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth' by academic Geoff Baker, challenging the internationally acclaimed organization of youth orchestras in the South American country - we talk to the author and to El Sistema's Executive Director, Eduardo Mendez. Also, the latest about the difficult financial situation the Ulster Orchestra is facing.

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