El sistema : music to change life / a production of EuroArts Music International in co-production with ARTE France, NHK and SF, SVT, YLE, ETV, TVP and Knowledge Network, supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung ; produced by Paul Smaczny ; a film by Paul Smaczny and Maria Stodtmeier.
Publisher:
Medici Arts,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
1 Blu-ray videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Documentary. Running time: 100 min. (film), 9 min. (bonus). Bonus film: audition for the National Children's Orchestra of Venezuela. Title from container. Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, Caracas Children's Orchestra ; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
Summary:
Venezuela has a unique system of music education, taking children from violent slums of Caracas and turns some of them into world-class musicians. Shows how Venezuelan visionary Jose Antonio Abreu has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children over the past three decades. Children from streets dominated by the gun battles of gang warfare are taken into music schools, given access to music, and taught how to build a better society.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.