Autorentext
Eric Booth, one of 2015's Fifty Most Influential Leaders in American Nonprofit Arts, is a celebrated teacher, actor, writer, director, and businessman. A longtime faculty member at Juilliard and Lincoln Center Education, he is the author of The Music Teaching Artist's Bible and winner of America's highest award in arts education. Tricia Tunstall is the author of Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music and Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson. A leading advocate for the importance of music education in children's development, she consults with El Sistema programs in the United States and internationally.

Klappentext
Following Venezuela's El Sistema, activists from across the globe are founding intensive orchestra programmes for children in need. Tricia Tunstall and Eric Booth discover what makes this movement successful across radically different cultures, offering a new way to think about what energises people and communities towards positive social change.

Zusammenfassung
An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistemaintensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.