This video is incredible! It is from the TED.com web site and features Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Venezuela Youth orchestra. The concert is a tribute to the founder of "El Sistema," a Venezuelan project designed to engage disadvantaged youth in education through music. Dudamel is a graduate of the program, and a world famous conductor, and all of the musicians are enrolled in the program.
According to the wikipedia article on El Sistema, "its greatest achievement are the 250,000 children who attend its music schools around the country, 90 percent of them from poor socio-economic backgrounds."
The video is evidence of the transformative power of art. As you watch these passionate, engaged kids, remember that without the program they would likely be dropouts, druggies, or dead.
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