Venezuela - Area: 352,143 sq. miles, Location: On the Caribbean coast of South America, Capital: Caracas
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Welcome to Venezuela's uniqueness page! Venezuela is a Grace land; it is the place where our Lord created the most beautiful landscapes and kind people. Here is our first sample, the Angel Fall (El Salto Angel); it is the highest waterfall of the world. What a proud! This is a good reason to come and visit us. Enjoy this short video while we work on the construction of this site.
Evelyn Izquierdo
Music
Since Gustavo Dudamel and the National Youth Orchestra performend in London's Proms in 2007, our music has spread around the world. In radio stations belonging to the PRS, like the Minnesota Public Radio Station, Seattle's King FM, one can listen to presenters talking about the "System" and Maestro Abreu, as an instroduction to the music they'll broadcast. The repertoire goes from classics like Mahler, Beethoven, to not so classic like Bernstein's Mambo.
The city of Los Angeles, literally, went crazy with the welcome they gave to the new Philharmonic conductor: Gustavo, as they call him. The innaugural concert closed with a wonderful firework show, as the Philharmonic conducted by Dudamel played Beethoven's Ode to Joy, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TPlg_90c44&feature=related
But, in the video below you'll have the opportunity to enjoy one of the most pure manifestations of our "creole" music, this particular partiture was composed by Aldemaro Romero, born in Valencia, Venezuela, and creator of what is called "Onda Nueva", in English New Wave. He named it Pajarillo, the translation could be like little bird, and represents a kind of music played in Venezuela's plains by country men, after they finish their daily work. The main instruments are harp, "cuatro", smaller than a guitar and with four strings, and "maracas".
The video below is a sample of Aldemaro Romero's work, presented at the Venezuelan Embassy in Madrid.
MarĂa Irene
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