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VENEZUELA: A New Life for At-Risk Kids, and Music Too!

by Humberto Márquez , IPS Inter Press Service - Culture, Religion, Sport

CARACAS, Aug 24 (IPS) - On tour in Germany after performing to rave reviews at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London, the members of Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra and its wild-haired conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, have made a remarkable journey from their less than promising social origins....

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France spends $56 per person on the arts. California spends 3 cents per person.
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The Louvre was originally constructed as the fortress of Philippe Auguste in 1190.
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Student artists volunteer in their communities four times as often as their non-art peers.
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