Venezuela’s El Sistema program: Orchestrating a musical movement for youths

Sometime in the 1920s, it occurred to Shinichi Suzuki, a young Japanese dispatched to Berlin by his father, that children could learn to play the violin the same way they learn to speak. A half-century later, it occurred to José Antonio Abreu, a young Venezuelan petroleum economist with a diploma in piano performance, that children could play in an orchestra without being middle class. Read full article >>