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Philosophy of El Sistema

Sistema is Dead – and “THE RESPONSE”

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

There’s a certain charming simplicity and predictability to the remnants of the Sistema movement, vestigial though they may be. Publish a deliberately hyperbolic polemic on the demise of the word, and you can set your watch to THE RESPONSE.

Posted in Philosophy of El SistemaTagged music education, orchestra, pedagogy, sistema, VenezuelaLeave a comment

Reflections on 10 years in Sistema

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

There’s much less now to say about Sistema except perhaps “requiescat in pace.”

Posted in Philosophy of El SistemaTagged Campo, music education, NEC, SwedenLeave a comment

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