El Sistema is expanding its reach. It is now in New Brunswick. Recently, Robert Irving of the Irvings of New Brunswick came to a concert of tyro Sistema orchestra of pre-adolexcent children, most of them form Moncton's economically challenged neighbourhoods. He loved the concert and asked the instrumentalists to play at a Wildcats game. That was a thrill for the musicians.
Capturing hearts is an El Sistema specialty. The Orchestra based musical education system founded by the musician-economist Jose Antonio Abreu in the slum of Caracas, Venezuela in 1975 has captured the hearts and minds of people like Simon Rattle who has stated that something important musically is happening in Venezuela.
This is a project that continues to spread. How wonderful.
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