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...unlikely image from a man as decidedly unmilitaristic as Dudamel. As a child growing up in the Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, he was given a set of toy soldiers by his mother. Instead of waging war, he arranged the soldiers into an orchestra and began conducting them. The ascent of his career since then has been breathtakingly swift: the winner of a major conducting competition at 23, he was offered Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at 25; then, in April, on the strength of only two guest appearances, the storied Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that the 26-year-old would...
...oneself against danger in preparation for when it comes," says President Pérez Jiménez. Setting a killing pace for the official sedans that followed, he swerved along the northward-twisting highway toward the Caribbean. At the coast he turned west again over the low plain to Barquisimeto, speeding through the clear dusk that silhouetted wide-spreading samán trees blackly against an orchid...
Eleventh Hour. In Barquisimeto, Venezuela, when Central Hospital opened its new maternity ward, Zayda de Barrios, 30, checked in as the first patient, promptly gave birth to her tenth, eleventh and twelfth children...
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