0:00:02 > 0:00:05Hello and welcome to highlights of a very special concert,
0:00:05 > 0:00:08featuring the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra,
0:00:08 > 0:00:10recorded here in Stirling.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13The concert, which will be conducted by the international maestro,
0:00:13 > 0:00:16Gustavo Dudamel, represents musical history,
0:00:16 > 0:00:19as it's set in the heart of the Raploch community,
0:00:19 > 0:00:22that's gone through some tough times.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Tonight's concert is a celebration of how music
0:00:25 > 0:00:27can transform lives.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30It was four years ago that Big Noise became the first branch
0:00:30 > 0:00:34of El Sistema in the UK. It's a visionary
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Venezuelan music scheme that improves the quality of life
0:00:37 > 0:00:40for children by immersing them in music making from an early age.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42It's also the project that nurtured
0:00:42 > 0:00:46the musicians of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra
0:00:46 > 0:00:49and its most famous son, Gustavo Dudamel.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52And now, a chance to hear some of the fruits
0:00:52 > 0:00:54of Sistema Scotland's hard work,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57with the Rondo from Abdelazar, written by the English composer
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Henry Purcell in 1695. Here is the Big Noise Orchestra,
0:01:01 > 0:01:03with some players as young as six,
0:01:03 > 0:01:05all of them from Raploch,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07conduced by their patron, Gustavo Dudamel,
0:01:07 > 0:01:09giving it their best shot.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:11 > 0:03:14A sterling performance by the youngsters of Big Noise,
0:03:14 > 0:03:18led by Gustavo Dudamel. This really is an experience
0:03:18 > 0:03:21they will surely remember for a very long time to come.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Now, another piece performed during the first half of tonight's concert.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Beethoven's Egmont overture,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35written in 1787 as music for Goethe's play of the same name.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39This time, members of the Big Noise Orchestra
0:03:39 > 0:03:42are joined by the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela,
0:03:42 > 0:03:44conduced by Gustavo Dudamel.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48SUSTAINED CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:57 > 0:04:00And before that performance, a surprise gift
0:04:00 > 0:04:03from the members of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra
0:04:03 > 0:04:05to the young local musicians joining them tonight.
0:13:05 > 0:13:10CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:13:16 > 0:13:18A great reaction from the audience,
0:13:18 > 0:13:21including maestro Abreu, from Venezuela,
0:13:21 > 0:13:23the founder of the Sistema programme.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Also in the audience, many proud parents, watching their children
0:13:33 > 0:13:37perform with one of the world's greatest orchestras,
0:13:37 > 0:13:38here in Raploch.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Well, the children from Big Noise have packed away their instruments
0:13:44 > 0:13:47and, along with their families, are settling down now to enjoy
0:13:47 > 0:13:49some more fantastic world-class music.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52The stage has been specially built for tonight's concert
0:13:52 > 0:13:55and when Dudamel offered to bring the orchestra across,
0:13:55 > 0:13:58Sistema Scotland chose this site, in the heart of the community,
0:13:58 > 0:14:00rather than a concert hall.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03As well as a strong local crowd, everybody here is welcoming
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Gustavo Dudamel, who is conducting the Simon Bolivar Orchestra's
0:14:07 > 0:14:10performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, the Eroica.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:34:47 > 0:34:50APPLAUSE
0:34:52 > 0:34:56APPRECIATIVE WHISTLES
0:35:01 > 0:35:05MUSIC: "Third Symphony (Eroica), Third Movement" by Beethoven
0:52:42 > 0:52:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:52:46 > 0:52:49Now, we're coming to, not the finale,
0:52:49 > 0:52:52but no performance from the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra
0:52:52 > 0:52:55and Gustavo Dudamel would be complete
0:52:55 > 0:52:57without the show-stopping piece
0:52:57 > 0:53:00which is the Mambo from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
0:53:00 > 0:53:02The Mambo, you might remember,
0:53:02 > 0:53:05is one of the dances at the gym from act one of West Side Story.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08It represents a kind of dance-off between the Sharks and the Jets,
0:53:08 > 0:53:10the two rival gangs from New York
0:53:10 > 0:53:13featured in Bernstein's and Sondheim's 20th-Century musical,
0:53:13 > 0:53:17inspired, of course, by Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet -
0:53:17 > 0:53:20in West Side Story, Tony and Maria.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01Mambo!
0:54:13 > 0:54:14Mambo!
0:55:29 > 0:55:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:55:39 > 0:55:42The Mambo. Leonard Bernstein's Mambo from West Side Story.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06Of course, how else would you end a concert like this in Scotland
0:56:06 > 0:56:10but with Auld Lang Syne, albeit with a Venezuelan twist?
0:56:10 > 0:56:13Robert Burns' international song of friendship.
0:56:15 > 0:56:19MUSIC: "Auld Lang Syne" by Robert Burns (music: trad.)
0:58:13 > 0:58:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:58:51 > 0:58:55Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd