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Booth, Eric – Teaching Artist Journal, 2011
In this article, the author talks about Venezuela's national youth orchestra program called El Sistema whose attributes offer a direct challenge to traditional Western music practices. As U.S. classical music--and all "high arts"--struggle to find relevance to more than the small "arts club" percentage of the U.S. populace, El…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Music Education, Musicians