Gustavo Dudamel: The conducting thing started really early and it was because I went to a concert that my father was playing with the orchestra, the Barquisimeto Orchestra. And I was amazed, it was very beautiful. I think it was Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, and I was listening to that, that I saw that theater in the middle moving the hands, it was a very, very emotional conductor, very expressive. Which for me was like, wow, what is this? And I started to try to discover that. And the first thing was like with the recordings at home I was conducting. And then my grandmother gave me a baton, I remember. And I was conducting at home, and it got very serious, you know, it was, of course I was playing, but it got very serious because I was rehearsing. I was preparing the orchestra with no knowledge of what was that, you know, it was only instinct that I was saying like, “Let’s balance this. Let’s do this.” With the recordings, that is why I said, I say always, I was conducting all of these big orchestras since I was 6-7 years old.