Click here for Part Four Caracas, April 13 Another day of wonders and the unpredictable. Today, Diana Arismendi, head of El Taller de Escritura Creativa, the Center for Creative Writing, and a prominent Venezuelan composer, returns from Puerto Rico to help us organize our efforts. I need her to feel that our program of starting kids composing at a very early age will help her … [Read more...] about Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Five
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Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Three
Click here for Part Two Caracas, April 9-10, 2010 The excitement builds. Also the nerves. Have you ever noticed how, when you travel to a completely new environment, all emotions are magnified? The joys are expansive, the fears are bottomless, each event rings clear, vibrates with color. I feel I should go to bed wearing dark sunglasses! And yet, there is a penetration to … [Read more...] about Guest Arts Education Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part Three
Guest Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part One
I am really, really, really! pleased to bring to you one of my very favorite artists: the composer, bassist, and educator extraordinaire: Jon Deak.Jon has offered to provide a guest blog on Dewey 21C about his trip to Venezuela, as artist in residence with El Sistema, which considering all the attention it has gotten over the past couple of years, should need no introduction … [Read more...] about Guest Blogger, Jon Deak: Creating Music with El Sistema, Part One