This segment was originally broadcast on April 13, 2008. It was updated on July 16, 2008. What comes to mind when you mention Venezuela? Hugo Chavez probably, or oil, or baseball? What probably does ...

Far from the shining example of how classical music can change vulnerable young lives many claim it to be, Venezuala’s El Sistema fails the country’s most deprived children, says Geoff Baker News: ...

Meet executive director Eduardo Méndez, the man behind the institution's impressive growth in the last decades both inside and outside its home country. By Sigal Ratner-Arias Deputy Editor, Billboard ...

From humble beginnings in Venezuela to world-famous education initiative - we look at how El Sistema, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and one Gustavo Dudamel influenced a generation of musicians.

Where in the world do you find more kids playing in orchestras than on soccer teams? In Venezuela, where a national program called "El Sistema" provides music education for hundreds of thousands of at ...