"I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other."

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For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

— Gustavo Dudamel