A short while ago, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Jose Antonio Abreu, Glenn Gould Prize winner visited Toronto to promote their music education project. They suggested that a bi national orchestra will exist in the future with members from Canada and Venezuela. The orchestra would play next year!
Dudamel was a preschooler when he entered Abreu's El Sistema, the national network of music instruction and ensembles that Abreu has been cultivating in Venezuela for over three decades.
"He created this beautiful and huge program that is unique," Dudamel said. "We are his sons, we have his blood in our veins, and it's not just music, it's about building the society and creating better citizens.
Abreau explained that music education is a matter of social justice. "The distribution in the world of arts eduction is tremendously unjust. When arts education takes the place in our society that it deserves, we will have much less delinquency and violence and much more motivation towards noble achievement."
Recent articles about arts education in Toronto suggest that this philosophy is being adopted by some. Hopefully, it will spread.
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