The Sistema Advocacy Orchestra Project
Already trialled and successful in this country, is the use of a highly trained, youthful and enthusiastic chamber orchestra which plays to both the public audience and to community/school audiences, with the purpose of generating enthusiasm, encouragement and the means by which communities can commence their own youth music service:
- Development of demonstration chamber orchestras 25 strong made up of skilled undergraduate and post-graduate musicians touring regions and communities within Australia.
- Members will be paid for performances in public concerts These orchestras will tour the regions – both in a country and city basis performing firstly at town halls or similar venues to a public audience and then perform special programmes to regional schools.
- The goal for each of these initial tours will be to establish regional centres of youth music (where they don't exist already) and or shoring up those that already exist if required.
- Intensive 7-day workshops will accompany these tours to help establish and develop youth music and school orchestras and choirs in these communities.
- The advocate orchestras and choirs will be centres of music excellence and will promote soloist performance, the development of chamber music and collaborative efforts with regional, indigenous and ethnic groups to allow for a vital and healthy musical educational system.
- It will enrich the musical lives of its members and give student musicians the opportunity to obtain invaluable professional, practical on the job performance training, build repertoire, expose them to life, fellowship and the whole world of Australian music!
- Annual and biannual re-visits by the music tutors would travel around the Sistema regions in a bus – like a library bus with the opportunity for in service for teachers, community tutors and management.
- These tutors would also play in schools to classes and groups to enhance the children's music experience.
“Is rhythm a musical phenomenon? No. Rhythm is a spiritual phenomenon. Rhythm is the internal pulse of the soul. Music sublimates the internal pulse of the soul and expresses it in a harmonious way - subtly, invisibly, and transmitted, without words, to other human beings. It is the art of making the will, soul and spirit agree to generate a message and to generate values that profoundly transform the spirit of the child who values the orchestra.”__ Jose Antonio Abreu
