On this week's episode of Beethoven Walks into a Bar, we welcome our first guest conductor of the season, Venezuelan Domingo Hindoyan who will conduct the orchestra and Kansas City Symphony Chorus in a program of Mendelssohn, Brahms and Berlioz. We’ll learn all about his upbringing in Venezuela’s El Sistema music schools, his short time as a conductor spy, and how his mother made her way from Aleppo to South America. We also make stomach's grumble with a chat about arepa, chimichurri, ceviche, empanadas, chupe, dulce de leche and other South American cuisines.. This week on Beethoven Walks into a Bar.