Post your favorite bands or musicians, and I'll tell you why they suck!

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35. But he's got fabulous wild hair!!

Wild hair is important for conductors.

I spent many years in orchestras (high school, college and community) and I played some pretty wild stuff that I was NOT used to playing. I was NOT on automatic. In fact, oftentimes, with 20th century music, I had to tap my foot to keep up with the changing time signatures. Stravinsky, Bartok and Prokofief are full of changing time signatures. But you're right about the standard symphonic repertoire--Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Brahms.

Besides, Gustavo is a product of La Sistema, the program in Venezuela that takes 100,000 school children at age five, sticks an instrument in their hands, and they learn it, to keep them out of gangs and doing something constructive. I've seen a video of Gustavo conducting the Simon Bolivar National Youth Orchestra in the symphonic dances from West Side Story. Difficult music.
Gustavo was a fiddler. And yet we in the United States think art and music in the schools are a luxury.