Venezuela’s El Sistema, which teaches classical music to underprivileged kids, has a new poster boy in LA Philharmonic music director designate Gustavo Dudamel. But El Sistema’s list of successes goes far deeper than Dudamel. “The road taken by Dudamel… is one along which some 270,000 young Venezuelans are now registered to aspire, playing music across a land seeded with 220 youth orchestras from the Andes to the Caribbean.”