While I am always quick to point out the barometers which point to the
ill health of classical music, it also seemed appropriate to share the
URL below.

It is so encouraging to me to see kids, many of them from the streets,
playing like the best of the professional orchestras, and I might add,
with more enthusiasm than any professional orchestra I have seen in many
years.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtnjixhvOTU&mode=related&search=

There is also a film about them, "Tocar y Luchar."

Karl

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