El Sistema resource materials

El Sistema USA Movie sample from ElSistemaUSAmovie on Vimeo.

El Sistema USA Movie – There is Magic in the Music

Watch this short movie on the Abreu Fellowship Program  - a one year postgraduate certificate program at the New England Conservatory offered for gifted musicians and educators interested in creating social change through music - and the organization El Sistema USA  - a support and advocacy network for people and organizations inspired by Venezuela’s music education program, under the aegis of New England Conservatory.

Other Resources

• Composing Change: YOLA and the El Sistema Movement
  From May 6—8, 2010, the LA Phil hosted an international symposium in partnership with the League of American Orchestras and El Sistema USA entitled Composing Change: YOLA and the El Sistema Movement. Notes from the roundtables, symposium materials, a photo gallery, and videos, as well as press links from the event are available
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• El Sistema: An afternoon with José Antonio Abreu by Ann Drinan from Polyphonic.org

•  El Sistema's Open Secrets by author and arts educator Eric Booth 

• Toolbox Session at 2009 Conference
  El Sistema USA: Taking the Next Steps
  Three orchestras – the Baltimore and Chicago Symphonies, and Los Angeles Philharmonic- and the New England Conservatory have done significant work in the last year inspired by the El Sistema model. Learn about their accomplishments and what they might mean for your orchestra.
  
  Download Materials:
  A Distinct Approach: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s response to El Sistema (PPT)
  Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA) (PPT)
   LA Phil Youth Orchestra Fact Sheet
  
  
• 2008 League Conference: El Sistema
  El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu discussed his vision and his challenge:  What can our country and our orchestras learn from the achievements of El Sistema?

• Symphony magazine, March/April 2008
  The breakout success of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela’s acclaimed music-education “sistema” has many people in the orchestra world looking in an unaccustomed direction: the Southern hemisphere

• From Reuters, slideshow:
  Gustavo Dudamel teaches children at Youth Orchestra L.A., the Los Angeles Philharmonic's effort to establish youth orchestras in the under served areas of the city, in Los Angeles December 6, 2008.

• Learn more about the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s El Sistema-inspired program “Youth Orchestra Los Angeles”, the brainchild of classical music wunderkind Gustavo Dudamel in two blog postings by Lucia Brawley for the Americans for the Arts blog in September, 2009.
  -http://blog.artsusa.org/2009/09/22/el-sistema-in-l-a/
  -http://blog.artsusa.org/2009/09/25/el-sistema-in-la-part-ii

•  Thoughts on Seeing El Sistema
  by author and arts educator Eric Booth