Gustavo Dudamel Dedicated Saturday’s LA Phil Concert To A Slain 17-Year-Old El Sistema Violinist

Before conducting the heck out of Schubert’s First Symphony, written when he was of a similar age to the student who was killed, Dudamel “said the violence in Venezuela is unacceptable, and he dedicated the concert to the slain student and to all the victims of violence. ‘We play for all our children,’ he concluded, ‘to build a better future for them with peace and love.'”