July 2018
Preparing Students for “The Big Event”
Ryan LaBoy, Music Director, and Sara Zanussi, Executive Director, of ComMUSICation, St. Paul, Minnesota
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From the Editor
Tricia Tunstall
“Cell phones and social media.”
That was the succinct answer I got from a Sistema teacher I spoke with recently, when I asked her why she said her job is getting harder, not easier. She added, “And this year, it’s really ramped up; the problem is worse than it’s ever been.”
Music Therapy & Sistema
Virginia Eulacio Cierniak, Director of Education and Creative Arts Therapies, Union City Music Project
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The Great Lakes El Sistema Seminario
On June 27-28, Goshen College hosted the Great Lakes El Sistema Seminario in Goshen, Indiana.
The Busiest Spot on the Sistema Globe
We just passed the darkest part of the Sistema world year in the Southern Hemisphere and the lightest part of the year in the North—do you know what the BUSIEST place in the Sistema world is all year long? It’s Sistema Global, especially their Facebook page.
Around the Sistema World with Hannah
Hannah Whitehouse
I was fifteen years old. It was the summer of 2012. My dad and I were making the sixteen hour drive up to Interlochen Arts Camp, and I was surfing the web on my iPhone. I began browsing TED talks, when one caught my eye: “The El Sistema music revolution”. For the next seventeen minutes, I sat in awe listening to José Antonio Abreu discuss his founding of a program that changed lives through music. As Maestro Abreu explained the program of social rescue, its structure, and the cultural impact that it has on the people of Venezuela, I grew more and more captivated by the model.
Making the Case for Sistema at TEDxLuxembourgCity
Patricia Abdelnour, the Director of Fundación Acción Social por la Música (Social Action for Music) in Madrid, Spain, recently gave a strong TED talk at TEDxLuxembourg City.
Colombian Tribute to Maestro Abreu
On May 15, 2018, the Colombian national Sistema program Batuta brought together young musicians from all over the country to join in a huge concert paying tribute to Maestro Jose Antonio Abreu, who died on March 24th.
Superar Srebrenica Bosnia: Filming Student “Voice”
If “student voice” could be captured in a fairy tale on film, here is one way it might look.
Sistema programs in many countries are exploring ways to increase “student voice” in order to intensify students’ motivation and social development. A program in Bosnia has taken a unusual approach.
