Insprational Story on 60 Minutes

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:41 am

There was a great story on 60 Minutes last night about the power of Music Education in Venezuela. It was a great story on the transformative power of music that we could all stand to see!

I realize that this board may be a bit too crusty and cynical for such a positive spin, but here's the link anyhow!

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video ... d=4011959n

Best,
DZ

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:31 am

David Zerkel wrote:There was a great story on 60 Minutes last night about the power of Music Education in Venezuela. It was a great story on the transformative power of music that we could all stand to see!

I realize that this board may be a bit too crusty and cynical for such a positive spin, but here's the link anyhow!

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video ... d=4011959n

Best,
DZ

Crusty? Cynical? What makes you say that? We're all extremely positive about everything. Then you go and post that silly story....Ok. I'm just kidding.

Yosef: Tubist · Post by **Yosef: Tubist** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:32 pm

YEAH!!

That was awesome!

Thanks for posting!

jma78 · Post by **jma78** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:33 pm

Really inspiring!

Thanks for posting!

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:49 pm

Thanks for posting that link David.

I wanted to watch that but I lost the coin flip on what we were going to watch last night.

Very inspiring!

bobcatpilot · Post by **bobcatpilot** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:10 pm

Great story! Thanks for the link... I only caught part of it last night.

poomshanka · Post by **poomshanka** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:31 pm

Yes, very inspiring program. Some more info is in this 60 Minutes story on Gustavo Dudamel. He speaks about bringing El Sistema to L.A.

http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/143/gustavo_dudamel

Interesting...

...Dave

tokuno · Post by **tokuno** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:53 pm

Thanks for posting the link.
Makes me want to ~do~ something. Wouldn't it be awesome to bring a program like that to our local communities?

Also loved the snippet of "Roman Carnival". I last played that in 1982 - euphonium. The arpeggios at the end killed me. Great memories.

THE TUBA · Post by **THE TUBA** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:04 pm

Not only does The System introduce music to lots of kids, but it also makes some pretty darn good musicians.
Sensemaya: Venuzualan National Youth Orchestra

Edicson Ruiz is another product of The System. He won a double bass spot with the Berlin Philharmonic when he was 18. Wow.

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:43 pm

I was facinated by the news report last night. Does anyone know why they use basically a double orchestra? It would seem that two regular size groups could cover twice as much ground as one huge group.

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Insprational Story on 60 Minutes

Insprational Story on 60 Minutes

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Roman Carnival!