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Saturday, 2 March 2019
La Sinfónica Nacional Infantil de Venezuela.
This will gladden the heart of any music lover. A thousand (if not more) Venezuelan children under the enthusiastic batton of Sir Simon Rattle. I hope you have good speakers connected to your laptop!
THANK YOU! That was exactly what I needed to get my cold brutal winter worn bones smiling this morning! The world needs more kids making music, and of course less old grouchy people telling each other what they should do. Thanks!
It makes you wonder where those precious souls are today - could some of them be in those tragic groups fleeing the horrific things going on in Venezuela now. Here's a link to an earlier video about the beginnings of the orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43tqQhOTCgQ
Thanks for that. Venezuela has always been a corrupt country. My wife lived in Caracas for several years (her father was a British diplomat), and they experienced it on a daily basis. Once after having been burgled the police came to investigate, and when they left even more was missing. It's rotten from top to bottom.
17 comments:
A brilliant start to a wet and miserable day here on the Kent coast... thank you Cro.
LX
Light rain here too this morning Lettice. It makes a change!
Perhaps they could do the same thing here with our street kids, adopt instruments instead of knives?
LX
Does the heart good to hear this, especially in these troubled times for their country.
Some hope!
That's what I thought.
It was all the joyous movement that got to me - that's the way to enjoy making music!
Even Rattle seemed to be enjoying himself.
Amazing. Latin classical. I hope those kids have enough to eat today.
Only when they've swept a few chimneys, or worked a treadmill for a few hours.
THANK YOU! That was exactly what I needed to get my cold brutal winter worn bones smiling this morning! The world needs more kids making music, and of course less old grouchy people telling each other what they should do. Thanks!
It makes you wonder where those precious souls are today - could some of them be in those tragic groups fleeing the horrific things going on in Venezuela now. Here's a link to an earlier video about the beginnings of the orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43tqQhOTCgQ
The Simon Bolivar orchestra is a truly amazing phenomenon. I remembered the 2008 Proms appearance which made huge waves here.
That just about sums up my reason for posting this.
Thanks for that. Venezuela has always been a corrupt country. My wife lived in Caracas for several years (her father was a British diplomat), and they experienced it on a daily basis. Once after having been burgled the police came to investigate, and when they left even more was missing. It's rotten from top to bottom.
Very different to the Chinese approach. They seem to be having so much fun.
Ah. If only they weren't in Venezuela.
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