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Bob Simon On Venezuela's Groundbreaking Musical Education Program
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- Would someone please explain to me what has happened to our Unites States that the top educators cannot understand the importance and value of emphasizing the arts or our legislators to provide adequate funding? Time after time studies such as this segment illustrates have demonstrated the value of a music education. We are so obsessed with sports we seem to be unable to understand music also provides our children and youth with a sense of discipline, accomplishment and pride. Not every kid is able or wants to play sports. Many musicians are still playing well into their 90''s, know any athletes who can still perform at that age? And when was the last time you heard of a fight breaking out at a symphony concert?
I''m sorry to say I believe the United States no longer has a lot going for it: We don''t seem to know how to feed ourselves properly, control our anger, manage our finances, or educate our youth. For the future of children growing up today can''t we at least teach them Chinese so they have a chance to survive in the future? - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who teaches & directs & just finished a talent show here with 64 kids ages 5-19! I would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico! Yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time & create maybe a beautiful cultural exchange program between our 2 parts of the world!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT!
Sinceramente,
Cindy - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who teaches & directs & just finished a talent show here with 64 kids ages 5-19! I would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico! Yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time & create maybe a beautiful cultural exchange program between our 2 parts of the world!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- The program on El Sistema was revelatory.
I am a teacher, a writer, and a dramatist, I have long held the belief that to introduce the arts, let''s be clear - classical music leading the way to classical literature and classical visual arts - to children very young, two, three years of age, is a solution to what is so desperately troubling U.S. Education. Not just allowing back into the curriculum Humanities, but redefining what they are as the very heart and core of education! Yes! El Sistema! 300,000 kids filling Venezeula with music and hope! Let''s do it here. It could change the entire dynamic of a sorely troubled, thumping-with- the-primitive-beat-of-destruction society... - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- Wow! Totally fantastic & uplifting! I am a counselor, singer & actress who works with all kinds of kids through music & theater & would love to meet these amazing people & help create more of these Venezuelan musical projects here in New Mexico!
I would love to connect with the amazing Dr. Abreu & Gustavo the Great! Yo hablo espanol tambien & yo trabajo con muchos ninos de familias quien no tienen dinero,y tambien ellos tienen muchas problemas en sus casas, i.e., bebiendo, violencia, enojo, tristeza,y problemas con drogas pero ellos tienen talento, vision, esperanza, pasion, suenos y necessitan a tocar y cantar y tener mas inspiracion!
I just finished directing our annual talent show with 64 kids 5-19 years old who sang, danced, & played all kinds of music for enthusiastic audiences and it was so fantastic to help all of them realize their dreams on stage & grow as performing artists!
Por favor, email me!I would love to be in touch with these remarkable leaders who know how to change the world through music one child at a time!
PLEASE EMAIL ME! I wish you only the best!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INSPIRING ME TONIGHT! - Reply to this comment
- This is a very worthy cause. Nothing inspires a person''s life like music. Where can a person make a private donation to these kids?
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- I think they should produce a CD with Venezuela
Orchestra - their version of Berstein''s WEST SIDE STORY is phenomenal! Where can I buy it and support the cause that way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- Terrific reporting, uplifting news. We need the same program here in the US. Where do we begin? I am a public school teacher in a low-income school.
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- Terrific reporting, uplifting news. We need the same program here in the US. Where do we begin? I am a public school teacher in a low-income school.
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- Terrific reporting, uplifting news. We need the same program here in the US. Where do we begin? I am a public school teacher in a low-income school.
- Reply to this comment
- Terrific reporting, uplifting news. We need the same program here in the US. Where do we begin.
- Reply to this comment
- I am an American citizen who lived and taught in Caracas, Venezuela for 4 years and while I attended many performances at the National theater in Caracas and knew some people in the music world, I had no idea of this program until I viewed it this evening.
I too would love to donate and collect instruments for the students. However, shipping to Venezuela is nearly impossible and while I lived there, unless I brought it with me on the plane, I never had anything shipped. The possibility of theft was so great that it wasn''t worth the risk. Even the school where I worked could never safely receive shipments from the USA. There may be ways through the Embassy or consulate or possibly through a carrier like Federal Express. Ideas CBS? - Reply to this comment
- I am an American citizen who lived and taught in Caracas, Venezuela for 4 years and while I attended many performances at the National theater in Caracas and knew some people in the music world, I had no idea of this program until I viewed it this evening.
I too would love to donate and collect instruments for the students. However, shipping to Venezuela is nearly impossible and while I lived there, unless I brought it with me on the plane, I never had anything shipped. The possibility of theft was so great that it wasn''t worth the risk. Even the school where I worked could never safely receive shipments from the USA. There may be ways through the Embassy or consulate or possibly through a carrier like Federal Express. Ideas CBS? - Reply to this comment
