El Sistema, the transformational program that lifts kids out of poverty via music study, will launch in the US.
Three cheers and more.
Music education in the United States has been abysmally done, and for all the wrong reasons, for decades now. I lose count of the numbers of recitals I have endured where students were attempting to perform big pieces of literature, studying with teachers who hadn't taught them scales!
The kids are often cannon fodder in the brush-war rivalries between teachers (and some parents). Those few who do continue in university programs have to be disassembled and reassembled by the faculty, because they arrive so abysmally prepared. My college-teacher buddies sport thinning gray hair--what hasn't been torn out has been turned...
This is a true Green Shoot for the culture. Here's hoping it is embraced, and not suborned, by the US.
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