2008-06-15 Free instruments for poor children. The Observer, UK.

El Sistema's incredible success has now inspired the English to install a similar program: "We are trying to take children out of poverty through music. They will be given instruments and they will be given proper tuition. If it does work here, it will change the face of musical education in this country."

A similiar scheme has already been launched in Scotland.

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2008-05 Youth & Children Orchestra of Venezuela receive Prince of Asturias Arts Award. Spain.

The Youth & Children Orchestra of Venezuela, founded by José Antonio Abreu, wins the Prince of Asturias Arts Award for having combined, within a single project, the highest artistic quality and a profound ethical conviction applied for the improvement of our social reality.

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2008-04-13 El Sistema: Changing lives through music. 60 Minutes, CBS, USA.

CBS' Bob Simon took a look at El Sistema: Abreu's groundbreaking musical education program and its impact on Venezuela's poor.

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2007-09-04 Chávez pours millions more into pioneering music scheme. Guardian Unlimited, UK.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has thrown his weight behind the music scheme founded by José Antonio Abreu: The President announced the creation of "Misión Música", a government-funded effort to give tuition and instruments to 1 million impoverished children.

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