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Alex Rosales Garcia, Teaching Artist/Bassoonist
Undocumented immigrants share the unique experience of eventually facing the implications of their legal status. For me, that understanding developed in middle school – six years after I crossed the border into the U.S. in 1995, with only shoes, pants, and a sweatshirt.
Principles of Scale for Growing a Sistema System
Dalouge Smith, CEO of The Lewis Prize for Music
In the early days of the U.S. El Sistema movement, Maestro Abreu regularly spoke at national conferences. Often during these events, he would state, “El Sistema is not a system.” Yet we all marvelled at the interconnected structure of neighborhood núcleos, regional seminarios, state youth orchestras, and the multiple levels of youth orchestras based at Caracas’s national conservatory.
EDITORIAL: The Transformative Power of Big
An American in Gothenburg
Emily Kubitskey, Teaching Artist/Conductor
Often, when we think about the word ‘culture,’ we think about the qualities of a community—its shared music, food, or religion. However, the word is derived from the Latin word ‘colere,’ which means to tend or cultivate; so when we take a more active perspective, we can define culture as ‘the medium for growth.’
FROM THE EDITOR August 2019
Tricia Tunstall
Dr. Bettina Love, the author and cultural philosopher whose riveting keynote speech kicked off last week’s YOLA National Symposium in Los Angeles, teaches her education students at the University of Georgia a course called “Black and Brown Excellence.”
Impressions from the YOLA National Festival
Terrence Thornhill, YOLA National Cello Faculty; Teaching Artist, Paterson Music Project
The U.S. El Sistema movement came together in Los Angeles last week for the YOLA National Festival and Symposium. Two Festival ensembles of students chosen from Sistema programs across the country spent an intense week rehearsing and performing together, while the Symposium brought program leaders and teaching artists together for dialogue.
Changing Lives; Changing Interlochen
Trey Devey, President, Interlochen Center for the Arts
I first discovered Interlochen as a young child. The campus is just seven miles from my grandparents’ summer cottage, and my love of classical music was inspired by Interlochen Public Radio.
Fostering Epic Parents
Anne Campbell, Education Director, Catamount Arts/EPIC Music
EPIC Music, in St. Johnsbury, VT, was one of four El Sistema-inspired organizations recently invited to partner with a team of Duke University undergraduates to explore parent engagement in El Sistema USA member organizations. Parent engagement is an important goal for us; we have talked for more than a year about offering violin workshops for parents, so that they can understand our students’ challenges and learn how to help their children practice at home.
Editorial: July 2019
Tricia Tunstall
I went last week to Side By Side By El Sistema Swe- den, an intensive international music camp spon- sored by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in partnership with the city and El Sistema Sweden. Let’s start with the statistics.
Ten Years of Learning
Paloma Ramos, Chief Program Officer, Harmony Project, Los Angeles, CA
After 10 years of programming at Harmony Project’s YOLA EXPO site, what have we learned?
We have learned that 7 years old is generally too young to start the French horn; it’s better to wait until at least 10 years of age. We learned that it’s best to start classes a few weeks after school starts, and end them a few weeks before the school year ends.