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Eight revolutionary El Sistema inspired music programs will join forces for The First Annual El Sistema Greater Boston Showcase on June 1st at the Franklin Institute in the South End. It promises to be a monumental performance celebrating the blossoming El Sistema movement in the Greater Boston Area.
The event, sponsored in part by the Free For All Concert Fund, will begin with an afternoon “performathon” of musical offerings from each of the eight programs. It will culminate in an evening Gala Concert featuring the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, led by maestro Benjamin Zander and Conservatory Lab Charter School’s advanced Dudamel Orchestra, under the baton of Adrian Anantawan. The event is hosted by Conservatory Lab CharterSchool and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
Three years ago, Conservatory Lab Charter School became the first program in Boston to offer 2.5 hours of daily El Sistema music instruction to all of its 146 elementary school students, incorporated into the regular school day. Since then, seven more programs have taken hold in the Greater Boston Area, offering free, excellence-driven, daily music instruction in underserved communities. These programs, also featured in the June 1st event, include Bridge Boston El Sistema, El Sistema Somerville, Josiah Quincy School Orchestra Program, Margarit Muñiz Academy El Sistema Program, The Roxbury Youth Orchestra, Youth and Family Enrichment Services, and Kids4Hamony of Pittsfield, MA.
The El Sistema movement came to Boston from Venezuela, initially through the efforts of Mark Churchill, founder and director of El Sistema USA. For 38 years the Venezuelan network of youth orchestras has offered intensive, ensemble-based music education to that country’s underserved children. Playing together in orchestra fosters cooperation, self-confidence, and perseverance, transforming youth culture and promoting higher graduation rates. In recent years El Sistema has spread throughout the world, transforming the lives of untold numbers of children and young people. El Sistema is the leading expression of the international “social action through music” movement.
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