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Thanks to Dr. Abreu
File : Date : 2010-11-19 09:59:00
In last Wednesday 27th October, the Heart to Heart orchestra performed for celebration at the 10th Seoul Peace Prize in Shilla Hotel in Seoul.
And there was a special moment.
Dr. Abreu directly went up on the stage and listened the Heart to Heart occhestra's performance and acclamed for it. As the Dr. Abreu is a founder of El Sistema, the meeting of him and the orchestra of mentally-handicapped youth was even more touched.
El Sistema is a program that distributes musical instruments to the children from the economically poor background and let them belong to the orchestra. This program uses music for protection of childhood and preventation from criminal behaviour.
There are two hundred of branches for the program though the country and three. Also there are hundred thousand of children and adolescents participating in one hundred of youth orchestras and seventy of children orchestras.
Dr. Abreu is famous for an unusual record. He graduated ¨Summa Cum Laude¨ as an Economist at Universidad Católica Andres Bello and he was awarded a PhD degree in Petroleum Economics from the same university in 1961. And he got a title of great composer and he attended the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy in 1957, where he studied piano with Moisés Moleiro, organ and harpsichord with Evencio Castellanos, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. In 1967, he received the Symphonic Music National Prize for his musical ability.
Though the Seoul Peace Prize committee, he expressed what he felt for the award.
"It is a great honor to achieve recognition of my trial of making a system that enables the poor youth to serve for the society as sound members of it." Dr. Abreu said.

 
 
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