El Sistema

The Loss of the Old

Carey Perloff | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Theater, Classics, Strand Theater, San Francisco, El Sistema, Charles McNulty, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Arts News

Why do we assume classics are impenetrable and obsolete? Why do we imagine that an ecology that privileges "emerging artists" while all but abandoning mature ones, let alone historical ones, will have resonance in the long run?

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Gustavo Dudamel Receives A Hero's Welcome Back Home

AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: LA Philharmonic, Dudamel, Video, LA Philharmonic Venezuela, Los Angeles Philharmonic, El Sistema, Gustavo Dudamel Caracas, Gustavo Dudamel, Dudamel Philharmonic, La Phil, Los Angeles News

CARACAS, Venezuela — Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the firs...

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A Simple Innovation: Spend the Money Wisely

John Merrow | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Education Innovation, John Merrow, Placido Domingo, Education Reform, Harmony Program, Education, El Sistema, Harmony Project, Education News

Why is the notion of trying to give poor kids the opportunities that rich kids take for granted anti-American?

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Best Education Books of 2011

Gary Stager | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, Educational Leadership, Education Policy, Books, Reggio Emilia Approach, School Reform, Education 2011, Music, Roger Schank, Education News

Readers will be empowered to dream bigger, act bolder and eschew the incrementalism plaguing public education policy.

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This Thanksgiving: Why Our City's Underserved Children Are Thankful for Music Education

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Al Meyers, Dantes Rameau, Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu, Atlanta, TED Conference, El Sistema, Education News

Entrepreneur Al Meyers was attending a TED conference in Palm Springs in 2009 when a presentation by TED Prize winner and Venezuelan conductor and economist Jose Antonio Abreu sparked an idea.

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WATCH: Amazing Venezuelan Youth Orchestra Stuns America

AP | By CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Cultura, Video, Los Angeles Philharmonic, El Sistema, El Sistema U.S.A., LA Youth Orchestra, Teen Musicians, Gustavo Dudamel, High School News, Youth Orchestra, High School News

LOS ANGELES -- Gustavo Dudamel stands off to the side of an orchestra of T-shirt clad teens as they laboriously rehearse Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5...

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Why Our Children Should Reach for the Stars

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Camp Hope, Orchestra, Venezuelan Youth Orchestra, Violin, Poetry, El Sistema, Arts News

I didn't know that a bunch of South Americans could make me cry so much. It wasn't just the applause, or the smiles, or the yells, from all around, of...

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Sports, Christian Values and the Arts?

Freddie Gershon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Sports, Education, Christian Values, Schools, Sat Score, School Budgets, El Sistema, Leadership, Art, Art Education, New York News

Athletic programs have been supported in school for a very long time. We shouldn't have to choose one over the other. How about giving the arts parity with sports and seeing what happens?

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Off the C(H)uff: Gustavo Dudamel Connects

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bizet, Carmen, Yola, Teresa Careno Theater, Los Angeles Master Chorale, El Sistema, Caracas, De Falla, Gershwin, Los Angeles Childrens Chorus, Venezuela, Charlie Chaplin, Ravel, Eloisa Maturen, Bernstein, Gustavo Dudamel. Los Angles Philharmonic, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Toscanini, Arts News

Dudamel says, "I think I can speak to people, about the beauty of the art and the music and the beautiful connection they need to have. The important thing for us as artists is to build bridges."

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Linda Ronstadt On The Promise of Music

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Education, The Promise of Music, Linda Ronstadt, Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu, Julia Moulden, El Sistema, Ted, Glenn Gould, Daniel J Levitin, New Radicals, Earth Overshoot Day, Music, Murray McLauchlan, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News

If you were interviewing Linda Ronstadt, would you be tempted to ask her to sing a few lines from your favourite song? Oh, I don't know, maybe "Silver...

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El Sistema Comes to the USA

Amy Novogratz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United States, El Sistema, New England Conservatory of Music, Venezuela, Music, Children, World News

El Sistema has already transformed the lives of thousands of Venezuelan children and produced extraordinary talent. With the support of the world, it would transform the lives of many more.

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Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra: A Musical Sensation from Venezuela

TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Culture, Children, Entertainment, Education, Music, El Sistema, Teresa Carreno, Orchestra, World News

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema.

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TED Talks: Gustavo Dudamel And The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra

TED.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ted, El Sistema, Teresa Carreno, Venezuela, Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel, Video, Healthy Living News

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra (Sinfónica Juvenil Teresa Carreño) is the national high school age youth orchestra of El Sistema, Venezuela's gr...

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Culture Zohn: The Obama of Music

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Basel, LA Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, You Tube, NY Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, Google, Chicago Symphony, El Sistema, Obama, Sixty Minutes, Israel Philharmonic, Entertainment News

Like our president-elect, Dudamel is reaching out across the aisle to take us all in, to welcome.

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