Hungry for Music, Rich of Inspiration

Watch Gustavo Dudamel, accompanied by the spectacular Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, bringing the audience to its feet, by demonstrating the power of El Sistema to transform children’s lives through music.  They play the 2nd movement of Shostakovich's Symphony #10 & Arturo Márquez' Danzón #2.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, 'El Sistema', created by TED Prize winner José Antonio Abreu.

The orchestra's namesake, Teresa Carreño, was a legendary Venezuelan pianist after whom the main concert hall complex in Caracas is also named.  Another Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, used to say that the most tragic part of poverty is not lacking bread to eat or a house to sleep, but the feeling of being no one to nobody.

End Poverty and Hunger in the World is the first Millennium goal set by United Nations; José Antonio Abreu is making hundreds of thousands rich on Inspiration to give to everyone, but still hungry – not for food, but for Music and Change.