José Abreu, the globally acclaimed founder of Venezuela’s El Sistema youth orchestra, a project that offered thousands of poor children free music education, died Saturday. He was 78. “My heart is ...

CARACAS - José Abreu, the award-winning founder of a program that pulled thousands of Venezuelan children from crime and poverty through music, died on Saturday, aged 78. Abreu founded the globally ...

Abreu began El Sistema in Venezuela in 1975 with fewer than a dozen students — 40 years later, his system has been used throughout the world to... José Antonio Abreu, the Venezuelan musician, ...

Jose Antonio Abreu, the Venezuelan pianist, educator and politician who sparked a revolution in the world of music education with his program known as El Sistema, will receive an honorary doctorate ...

Jose Antonio Abreu, the Venezuelan founder of the groundbreaking music-education program known as El Sistema, will make two appearances -- one open to the public -- next week at the Cleveland ...

That's the orchestra playing Evencio Castellanos' "Santa Cruz De Pacairigua." Abreu founded El Sistema over 40 years ago with fewer than a dozen musicians. Speaking at UC Berkeley in 2012, he ...

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 ...

José Antonio Abreu, the Venezuelan musician, economist and educator who created the acclaimed network of youth orchestras known as El Sistema, died Saturday at age 78. Abreu's death was announced by ...

Famed Venezuelan orchestra conductor Jose Abreu, who founded the renown El Sistema, a project that brought thousands of Venezuelan children out of poverty through music, died at the age of 78 on ...

CARACAS (Reuters) – Jose Abreu, the award-winning founder of a program that pulled thousands of Venezuelan children from crime and poverty through music, died on Saturday, aged 78. Abreu founded the ...