El Sistema, the new album from the veteran reggaeton duo Zion & Lennox, opens with a mini-mix that cycles through some of the biggest hits they’ve released over the last two decades: There’s a snippet ...

Where in the world do you find more kids playing in orchestras than on soccer teams? In Venezuela, where a national program called "El Sistema" provides music education for hundreds of thousands of at ...

At the center of the documentary Children of Las Brisas are the young musicians of El Sistema, the extraordinary, publicly financed, voluntary sector music-education program founded in Venezuela in ...

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As Venezuela struggles with a crippling financial crisis and extreme food shortages, some believe the contentious social and classical music programme is needed more than ever to give hope to the ...

Venezuelan maestro Gustavo Dudamel greets young Venezuelan musicians during a concert in Caracas on Feb. 16. Photo by Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images. On Friday’s NewsHour, education correspondent John ...

Sometime in the 1920s, it occurred to Shinichi Suzuki, a young Japanese dispatched to Berlin by his father, that children could learn to play the violin the same way they learn to speak. A ...

In 2012, an estate near Stirling in Scotland hosted a famous televised concert that featured local children performing with Venezuela's famous Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra. It was part of an ...