The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, asked the banking sector to join the project to reactivate the construction to complete the work of the Teacher Training Center, adjacent to the National Center for Social Action for Music.
“The bankers who earn so much money. The banks in the country earn a fortune, they could put it up or we seek financial support internationally. We have to finish it, at all costs, it is an outstanding debt with our musicians,” Maduro said during the broadcast of his program. With Mature+.
Eduardo Méndez, director of the Fundación de Acción Social por la Música, explained that the children who live in the system end up there, in the professional center, it is the most important showcase that the system has. The spaces are already becoming insufficient, “and this project was one of the premises of maestro Abreu,” he recalled.
“Maestro Abreu said that the children of Venezuela should have the best infrastructure, the best instruments, the best teachers, and that is what the Orchestra System with the support of the State has been doing,” he said.
Mendez said that by the first quarter of 2024 Venezuela will try to break a new Guinness Record, which would be to break the largest choir in the world, with more than 130,000 people on stage.
He also commented on the participation of the fifth generation of the Orchestra System, made up of children from 9 to 15 years old at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, “there the Simón Bolívar Orchestra had played years before. We visited the United Nations headquarters for Interculturality Day,” she said.
Currently, more than a million children are participating in El Sistema, incorporated into the orchestras, 1700 public schools where they live and 750 nuclei of the system.
