El SISTEMA: JUVENILE DETENTION/JAIL

CRISIS IN NYC--PLEASE HELP US! FOR MORE INFO GO TO http://elsistema-nyc.org/

Juvenile detention center youth orchestra and music program saved the life of Lenar Acosta.

A former jail is transformed into a music center.

Might we be able to help increase jobs in upstate NY where almost empty juvenile detention centers could be converted and transformed into arts and music centers?
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=674358

http://communityconnectionsnyc.org/2008/03/26/the-juveniles-are-gone-yet-the-...
According to the latest NYC Mayor's Management Report, it costs around $200,000 a year to keep one juvenile delinquent in detention.

High school costs only $12,000 per student.

Might we be able to use the infinitely mysterious power of music to transform the lives of ALL children by emulating Dr. José Antonio Abreu's innovative socialization through music programs?

For more about El Sistema in penitentiaries, please go to:
http://tipom.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/8/

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• FESNOJI
• Abreu
• Dudamel
• deaf
• music
• education
• special
• disadvantaged
• children

[mambolaman]

This is wonderful! Excellent and inspiring, especially for those who work in juvenile justice and youth development. There is something wonderful about music that liberates the spirit in ways beyond traditional intervention programs. We need El Systema here in NYC! (Ruben Austria, Soros Justice Fellow)

[anerof]

Excelente video! Gracias por colocarlo!...

[HalWeller]

Contact the Foundation to Assist Young Musicians (FAYM) at theFAYM (dot) org!

[HalWeller]

This video (made 10+ years ago) interviewed Lenar Ocosta, a kid with knife scars who was 'saved' from the street by being given a clarinet to play in an orchestra. Since this taping, Lenar has gone to Berlin to study pipe organ technology and is now in Caracas and in charge of the great pipe organ in the new concert hall. Music CAN and DOES transform lives. And, with your help, the Foundation to Assist Young Musicians (FAYM) can do its part in doing just that! Please join us and donate today!

[MyFoxdie2006]

I know it gets hard dealing with missinformed step parents, cuz when they step past my anger line it's over, then we gotta go in & i'm only 9mths old, I cant imangine whats thats like depending on people to breed jus so my head can live on stages of life.:-) lil vamps

[MyFoxdie2006]

I know it gets hard dealing with missinformed step parents, cuz when they step past my anger line it's over, then we gotta go in & i'm only 9mths old

[shaggy60378]

wow i would like to make a differance like this

[myredsaga]

How much talent is buried in poverty? How many great minds never come to fruition because they are trapped in the cycle of poverty, a cycle they cannot get out of? Not only are musicians buried in the world's slums, but possibly great scientists, writers, or statesmen. What a waste. One man can have a billion dollars and a billion children don't have one dollar. What a waste.

[rccl36812]

@darkangel13915 ; You're 18 or older, and you thought that was funny ?...How sad !...

[darkangel13915]

i was laughing like fuck almost pissing on my pj's at 2:14-2:31 still laghing ha h ah ah ah ha ha ha ha h ah ah ah ha!!

[jeffemock]

this video is so inspiring i wish more countries would do this

[barkulator]

Governments let shantytowns grow out of control, and then give the people music programs in order to build their self esteem, as if the reason the shantytown came into being in the first place was the people's own fault. People everywhere are constantly given the responsibility to lift themselves up, as if it was their doing that they wound up marginalized in the first place.

Only a tiny fraction of anyone in any kind of a "program" is ever going to have their life changed from the program.