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Guest Blogger, Jon Deak, Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Two
Click here for Part One Caracas, April 8, 2010 We’re here! It seems impossible to describe all the events and feelings of just the first twenty-four hours of our trip to Venezuela, to experience and...
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Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part...
Click here for Part Two Caracas, April 9-10, 2010 The excitement builds. Also the nerves. Have you ever noticed how, when you travel to a completely new environment, all emotions are magnified? The...
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Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Six
Click here for Part Five Caracas, 13 de Abril, 2010 Having been so blown away by the rehearsal of the Simón Bolívar orchestra the previous Friday (see Part Three), and totally involved with planning...
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The Thomas Edison of Music Education and Composition: Jon Deak: Creating...
Click here for Part Seven Caracas, 17 de Abril As we gather the huge mound of music paper bequeathed to us by these children, I feel that we have been gifted with a beyond-precious trove of artistic...
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The Thomas Edison of Music Education and Composition, Jon Deak: Creating...
Click here for Part Eight We enter the children’s world: Michelle Hernández: The youngest composer, at age eight, has written for her original “dream’ assignment” a story so touching and symbolic of...
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The Thomas Edison of Music Education and Composition, Jon Deak: Creating...
Click here for Part Ten Why am I so intent upon the definitive performance? It should be clear by now that the whole point of the Very Young Composers is to take these works as seriously as we take...
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