El Sistema is a publicly financed music education program founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu. Its motto is "Music for Social Change." One of ...

Alums of Venezuela’s El Sistema program perform everywhere from the Berlin Philharmonic to our own Chicago Symphony. But the program faces uncertainty due to flashpoints with the United States and ...

In case you’re not satisfied with the plethora of free performances this Thursday and Saturday by members of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is also ...

In early July, the Los Angeles Philharmonic quietly canceled all four Hollywood Bowl performances featuring Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. The L.A. Phil, in ...