El Sistema

I am watching a video about this on medici.tv.

It is about a musical education program for poor children, in Venezuela. And is simply amazing. The government there has funded an excellent Classical Music system. At the same time it has descended into political and economic chaos.

This reminds me of the situation in the USSR, which also had an excellent Classical Music system.

The founders of El Sistema, who are interviewed here in depth, believe music will save their country.

It is worth watching the video, just to see how their minds operate. There is lot of admirable behavior going on there.