Concert/Documentary

El Sistema at The Salzburg Festival

Repertoire

National Children´s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela: George Gershwin Cuban Overture,Leonard Bernstein Mambo,Johann Strauss II Radetzky March,Alberto Ginastera Danzas de Estancia.White Hands Choir of Venezuela: Works by John Rutter, Athos Palma,W.A. Mozart, Francisco Céspedes,Adelis Freites and Astor Piazzolla

Synopsis

Rarely has an orchestra enchanted and thrilled ist audience as did the National Children’s Orchestra of Venezuela at the Salzburg Festival! This astonishing group was founded in 2010 by José Antonio Abreu as part of El Sistema, and Sir Simon Rattle conducted ist first-ever concert in Caracas. At the Salzburg Festival, it was Rattle on the podium again, conducting the children’s orchestra at its international debut.A choir for hard-of-hearing and deaf youths? Sounds like a contradiction in terms, but the one-of-a-kind White Hands Choir of Venezuela proves the opposite, and this 60-mins film documents the choir’s first tour abroad following an invitation from the Salzburg Festival. The programme features Latin-American folk songs and Piazzolla arrangements as well as choral works by Mozart and Rutter.

Additional Info

No: 717004
Composer: Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Alberto Ginastera, Astor Piazzolla, W. A. Mozart, John Rutter, Athos Palma, Adelis Freites
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle, Jesús Parra, Naybeth García, Luis Chinchilla
Orchestra: National Children´s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, White Hands Choir of Venezuela
Artists: National Children´s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, White Hands Choir of Venezuela
Production year: 2014-06
Run time: 02:26:00