Un Orchestre Pour Sauver Le Monde [French]

By Vincent AGRECH

Music: an alternative education for the millions of street children around the world?

For more than four decades, an extraordinary adventure has been changing the face of classical music across the world. Started in Venezuela, the orchestras and choirs of Sistema now boast nearly a million children born to working class parents, in some cases living in slums. With Sistema, a musical education is a weapon against delinquency and a tool for social advancement. It has imitators everywhere, in Brazil and Sweden, Korea and France. Behind the fairy tale lies a still more fascinating reality: the work of a single man, Jos Antonio Abreu, a charismatic but controversial figure. There are political rivalries at stake too, because the Venezuelan Sistema has become a propaganda tool for the Bolivarian regime. The author sets out to meet Abreu and the star conductor Dudamel, teachers and students, in places as unlikely as the fringes of Fukushima or refugee camps in Greece. At the heart of his enquiry is wonderful hope for the future of our children and our societies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234081165
• ISBN13: 9782234081161
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"