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Article taken from the Wall Street Journal:

The music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has composed the soundtrack to 'The Liberator,' a sweeping bio pic of South American legend Simón Bolívar
By REED JOHNSON
Sept.

30, 2014

The imposing name and gaunt visage of Simón Bolívar is memorialized throughout South America, on money, building facades and town plazas. Countless monuments pay tribute to the "Liberator," the soldier-statesman who carved out five republics—Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia—in the early 19th century.

Growing up in Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel was surrounded by images of this mythic figure.

"This is the way we Venezuelans know about Bolívar, as the hero, as the liberator," says Mr.

Dudamel, the 33-year-old music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
But the maestro aimed for a different image when he sat down to compose the score for "Libertador" (The Liberator), a feature film about Bolívar's life, which opens Oct.

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