3 weeks and they're on stage!
The Raploch 'El Sistema' experiment has started. 3 weeks ago, and already the children have played in a concert!
While it might bring tears to the eyes of professional musicians to have children performing who are just past learning to hold the instrument, those who are participating are loving it. The long-term unemployed father of 7-year-old twins (one of whom plays the double bass!) says the first he heard about it was when the children came home singing. Now that school is breaking up, there will be a summer school and then the work will continue, mostly with 5-8-year olds, to catch them young.
It's wonderful, no? Brings tears to the eyes anyway. Let's pray that it continues successfully.
While it might bring tears to the eyes of professional musicians to have children performing who are just past learning to hold the instrument, those who are participating are loving it. The long-term unemployed father of 7-year-old twins (one of whom plays the double bass!) says the first he heard about it was when the children came home singing. Now that school is breaking up, there will be a summer school and then the work will continue, mostly with 5-8-year olds, to catch them young.
It's wonderful, no? Brings tears to the eyes anyway. Let's pray that it continues successfully.
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