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Insprational Story on 60 Minutes
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:41 am
by David Zerkel
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
Re: Insprational(sic) Story on 60 Minutes
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:31 am
by TubaRay
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:32 pm
by Yosef: Tubist
YEAH!!
That was awesome!
Thanks for posting!
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:33 pm
by jma78
Really inspiring!
Thanks for posting!
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:49 pm
by Rick F
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!
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:10 pm
by bobcatpilot
Great story! Thanks for the link... I only caught part of it last night.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:31 pm
by poomshanka
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
Roman Carnival!
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:53 pm
by tokuno
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:04 pm
by THE TUBA
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:43 pm
by tbn.al
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.