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The death of José Antonio Abreu, famous founder of the Venezuelan popular orchestral system

  • The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has imposed a three-day national mourning for the death of the musician José Antonio Abreu, who has invented and promoted the System of Social Inclusion of thousands of poor Venezuelan children and youth through music.
ARGIA
26 March 2018 - 10:11
Abreu maisua Venezuelako Orkestra Sisteman ari diren gaztetxo batzuekin. (Argazkia: La Nacion)

Venezuela is in mourning on Saturday, 24, when José Antonio Abreu (1939) died. Although he has been known in the world mainly by the model of youth orchestras he has created, Abreu has been a man with many keys: in addition to musicians he was also a doctor in economics, having participated in politics since his youth... But it is the System (Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela - Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar), created mainly as a music educator, that has given it worldwide fame.

The Minister of Education of Venezuela, Elias Jaua, praises Abreu as a great Venezuelan: "Thank you very much, Maestro Abreu, for the legacy you have left to the young girls and boys of Venezuela." Gustavo Dudamel, the most charismatic director of that country over the years and the most popular fruit of the Bolivarian system of youth orquetas, greets him with emotion on Twitter:

Abreu began his purpose with 11 musicians in 1975 in a garage in Caracas. The project soon grew and the System created by it has given rise to the possibility of becoming more than half a million young musicians with the creation of the Zientoka Orchestra. Abreu also founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela.

Many countries have wanted to adapt the Venezuelan System in their territories and UNESCO itself has awarded it a special prize, appointing Abreu as Ambassador to represent the World Movement of Orchestras and Choirs of Children and Young People promoted by the organization. Abreu has since collected countless awards and doctor honoris causa.

President Nicolás Maduro approaches the coffin of Maestro Abreu to give the final greeting of the Venetians on behalf of the people:

 

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