My friend Iby turned me on to an amazing project in Paraguay.
Very much like Venezuela’s El Sistema and Scola Cantorum, it starts with a group of dedicated people who are reaching out to at-risk communities to provide children with proper schooling as well as access to music. The Paraguayan project, which turns 10 this year, now has approximately 15,000 alumni.
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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Like other such organizations around the world, they scrape together donations of instruments as well as funds to buy more. But, in a novel twist, Sonidos de la Tierra (Sounds of the Earth) also scrapes together scrap to make their own.
Here’s a neat video. You don’t have to understand Spanish to appreciate what’s going on.
John Terauds
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
Latest posts by John Terauds (see all)
- Classical Music 101: What Does A Conductor Do? - June 17, 2019
- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
