Photo gallery: Gustavo Dudamel’s learning curve

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A photo gallery on the Los Angeles Times website follows Gustavo Dudamel, the 28-year-old Venezuelan incoming music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, ending his second season as the Gothenburg Symphony‘s music director last month.

Dudamel will take up his new role in Los Angeles in October.

The Venezuelan conductor is the most illustrious graduate of El Sistema, or the System, Venezuela’s 34-year-old music tuition program that many regard as a model not only for music instruction but for helping children develop into productive, responsible citizens.

You can watch below a video shot by Reed Johnson last year of El Sistema in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

See the full photo gallery of Dudamel here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City