This series of "The School of Listening" with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela includes:

- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
  expanding the musical knowledge on
  Ludwig van Beethoven’s
  Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

- Gustavo Dudamel
  broadening the horizons on
  Gustav Mahler’s
  Symphony No. 1 in in D major - "Titan"

As the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra was the Salzburg Festival’s resident orchestra of 2008, they enthused the audience with an outstanding orchestral concert performing Beethoven and Mussorgsky.