Posted: 27-07-2010
What the USA can really gain from El Sistema
I have never seen Symphony Hall erupt the way it did that night in 2007, with Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra onstage. It was not the precision and polish of the group’s Bartok or Beethoven that set off the crowd, but the sheer expressive potency and exuberant physicality of the performance. My guess is that the music meant more to those in the audience that night because, at its core, it meant more to these players, some of whom had risen up beyond violent streets and poverty.
Weblink: www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/07/25/reflections_on_the_upbeat_to_a_new_movement/
Source: Boston Globe

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