Incredible high school musicians from Venezuela! Led by Gustavo Dudamel

http://www.ted.com The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2.

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[padredemishijos12]

@jefr1989 Dear Venezuelan friend. With all due respect, you are an idiot. What Chavez is to El Sistema is what steriods are to athletes. Chavez more than tripled the benefits to the families of the musicians, something previous governments were uninterested in doing. Such as free health care to all, subsidized housing and food to all the families, free education to everyone. Musicians play way better than before Chavez. It is the revolution that has made all the difference in the world.

[jefr1989]

@padredemishijos12 The President didn't do this, is a program way before Chavez, and the program is not link to the goverment

[padredemishijos12]

@MultiJleal No government in the world, and no state government in the USA spends $120 million on music education for poor kids like its done in Venezuela. That shows honor in the government of Venezuela. Thank you President Hugo Chavez !

[patipuppe]

@19BARD85 Of course we can, but to wear the national flag ist something that makes us very proud.

[Polovene]

@AHR1228 sorry, you are right we stop it now. Now to talk about performance:

This is my favorite youtube performance of danzon no 2. And I cannot tell if the wind instruments sound at 14:37 is a small mistake, since I never heard it in other interpretations, but it sounds nice. I wish I was there

I was lucky enough to watch a sbo performance featuring Danzon No. 2 in Fesnojiv facilities when the concert hall was innagurated privately :)

[AHR1228]

I don't live in Venezuela, nor have I ever lived in the country previously. But seriously? All this talk about President Chavez...I was beginning to think this was a political debate...

[padredemishijos12]

@Polovene Chavez pays a stipend to all the families whose children participate in the after school music program. Before Chavez the Venezuelan Capitalist government would steal government funds thus leaving little money for El Sistema. Chavez innovated honest government for the first time in Venezuelan history. These are the facts plain and simple.

[Polovene]

Not to follow padredemishijos12's attempts to taint music with his obscure political views, I will just share with you the link to "el sistema" 's site:

fesnojiv.gob.ve/es/historia.ht­ml

Yes, Abreu started it on 1975. By 1989, democratic times, el sistema was already known and awarded internationally. It's trademark: it was inclusive rather than exclusive: poor kids were much part of it. Dudamel himself was part of it then, playing violin (nodbody's born a conductor ;) .

Enjoy the magic :)

[padredemishijos12]

@Polovene Before Chavez,El Sistema was starved for fundsThe families of the musicians lived in dire poverty.Musicians went to practice hungry. They would go to their home after practice, and there would be little food. Chavez brought the benefits of the revolution to El Sistema by providing subsidized food, free education, low cost housing, and 30,000 Cuban doctors and health workers, and a massive public works with reduced unemployment.Chavez produced, for the first time an HONEST government.

[Polovene]

@padredemishijos12 Please do not distort the truth and taint "the miracle" with politics.

Abreu's work started in democratic times, over 30 years ago. And after the sucess and prestige our orchestra system reached worldwide, governments have supplied part of the bugdet.

It has nothing to do with government

Fesnojiv receives funds from government today, but it is entirely free of government management.

Respect music please.