Strings attached: what the Venezuelans are doing for British kids

Some of Britain's poorest children are embracing orchestral music – inspired by El Sistema, the movement in Venezuela that has sparked a revolution in learning and lifeThrough the leaden rain of a battleship-grey morning in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Britain drifts a flurry of music by Antonio Vivaldi. It's played not through hi-fi speakers or by a practising musician, but a group of children from Faith primary school, sitting on little chairs in the great Victorian space of what wa...

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