pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/teen-violin-star-venezuelas-youngest-conductor-163943820.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/O8CyNfgIICl3sFGsHjNYjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-06-26T171226Z_1_CBRE85P1BSV00_RTROPTP_2_VENEZUELA-CONDUCTOR.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Conductor Salazar leads the Youth Symphonic Orchestra of the Nueva Esparta state during a rehearsal in Margarita Island" align="left" title="Conductor Salazar leads the Youth Symphonic Orchestra of the Nueva Esparta state during a rehearsal in Margarita Island" border="0" //aMARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela (Reuters) - At 2 years old, he was given his first musical instrument: a quot;cuatro,quot; or small four-string guitar. At 8, he cried with emotion at a brass band concert. Now, at just 14, Jose Angel Salazar is Venezuela#039;s youngest orchestra conductor - the latest prodigy from his nation#039;s famed El Sistema (The System) music development program - and possibly the youngest in the world. Since the mid-1970s El Sistema has taught hundreds of thousands of youths, many from impoverished homes in Venezuela#039;s tough slums, to play in orchestras. .../pbr clear="all"/
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