"Austria came to learn closely about the national orchestra system"

Published by the Bolivarian News Agency (ABN)

Caracas, Feb 12th. ABN.- In order to strenghten the existing cultural links between Austria and Venezuela, and to get to learn in detail the teaching methods of the Venezuelan National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs, and group of Vienese personalities headed by Austria's Minister of Education, Arts and Culture, professor Claudia Schmied.

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Austria vino a conocer de cerca al Sistema Nacional de Orquesta

Caracas, 12 Feb. ABN.- Para estrechar los vínculos culturales ya existentes entre Austria y Venezuela y conocer de cerca los métodos de enseñanza musicales del Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, llegaron a Caracas varias personalidades vienesas, encabezadas por la ministra de Educación, Arte y Cultura de Austria, profesora Claudia Schmied.

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Posted on the Boston Globe
New movement for Conservatory:
Famed Venezuelan music education program adopted

By Geoff Edgers
Globe Staff / October 23, 2009


From left, Katie Wyatt, Lorrie Heagy, and Stanford Thompson enjoyed a break at the New England Conservatory.
(John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)

It didn’t take Stanford Thompson long to realize that his fellowship at New England Conservatory was anything but normal. A five-member film crew follows every move of the Georgia native and his nine classmates, as does an author on contract from W.W. Norton & Company. Thompson has been staying up past midnight just to answer e-mails from well-wishers.

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Boston Globe: "NEC's prestigious program fellows named"

Posted on the Boston Globe by Geoff Edgers October 13, 2009 07:54 PM

Dudamania may be all the way across the country but the US-based branch of El Sistema, the successful, Venezuelan music education program the conductor was involved with as a boy, is heading to New England Conservatory.

Ten grad-level musicians have been picked to head to NEC as the school launches the Abreu Fellows training program, one of the first major initiatives of El Sistema USA. These fellows will spend a year studying at NEC and in Venezuela so they can learn how to run music education centers throughout the world.

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L.A. Times: "Going global, El Sistema starts fellows program in U.S."

Culture Monster
All the Arts, All the Time

October 13, 2009 | 3:18 pm

Abreu The music program known as El Sistema -- which for 32 years has brought free classical music education to disadvantaged youth in Venezuela -- is no longer that country's secret. It seems as if now the whole world wants to copy or at least learn from the program, whose most famous alumnus is conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

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¿Cómo es el público guatemalteco?

Vida 27-08-2009
Carla Natareno, Siglo 21 (cnatareno@sigloxxi.com)

Adesca realiza estudio que muestra el comportamiento del público que asiste a los eventos de artes escénicas.

Por primera vez se hace una investigación con el propósito de explicar el comportamiento del público que asiste a las distintas actividades artísticas desarrolladas en el país. El proyecto efectuado por Álvaro Rodas, investigador y crítico guatemalteco, en colaboración con Adesca (Aporte para la Descentralización Cultural) se titula Primera Encuesta de público de las artes escénicas en la Ciudad de Guatemala, y fue dado a conocer recientemente.

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