[Euroarts 2056958] EL SISTEMA - Music to Change Life

This lyrical and very moving documentary takes us from the rubbish dumps and barrios of Caracas to the worlds finest concert halls. Children from streets dominated by the gun battles of gang warfare are taken into music schools, given access to music, and taught through the model of the symphony orchestra how to build a better society and a better world. Venezuelas unique system of music education takes children from violent slums and turns some of them in world class musicians. Gustavo Dudamel is the most prominent pupil of El Sistema.

El Sistema shows how Venezuelan visionary Jose Antonio Abreu has changed the lives of hundred of
thousands of children over the past three decades. Abreu earned several renowned prizes for his achievements, including the Crystal Award of the World Economic Forum, the TED Prize, and recently the Polar Music Prize, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

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Film & Animation

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• El Sistema
• Venezuela
• Gustavo Dudamel
• Jose Antonio Abreu
• documentary
• music education
• medici arts
• euroarts
• 2056958

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I'm speechless. The best policy against social class inequalities ever. The best investment ever. Bravo Venezuela.