Greetings appreciated steemians and general community, weeks ago I had the pleasure of providing my knowledge related to the System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, and the dream achieved by an exemplary Master of music as it was José Antonio Abreu, a tireless dreamer that left us a great humanistic teaching.
The Master, as his musicians called him, was for them a source of inspiration and gratitude, for having given them the opportunity to reach where many of these musicians could never have imagined.
José Antonio Abreu, founder of the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, was able to undertake a task that has exceeded all expectations and which has now been projected throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
This dreamer was born in Valera, Trujillo state on May 7, 1939, being just a child showed great musical and artistic sensitivity. He began his musical studies in the city of Barquisimeto and then moved to Caracas in 1957 where he studied under the tutelage of great Venezuelan figures. In the capital of the country, maestro Abreu studied Composition, piano, organ and harpsichord, obtaining the titles of Professor Performer. and Master Composer in 1964.
He also studied Orchestral Direction, a fact that led him to direct the greatest orchestras in the country and for the year 1975 he decided to found the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
For that same year (1957) he devoted his life to the Venezuelan musical youth, work that distinguished him with innumerable recognitions, an example of this was the National Music Award, in turn the decoration of the Government of Colombia.
Other of his great recognitions stand out the Inter-American Prize of the Culture Gabriela Mistral, (1995). The Don Juan de Borbón de la Música award in the city of Segovia, Spain; among other honorable awards.
The composer and economist José Antonio Abreu formed directors and interpreters of the highest level, based on a bold confidence in the educational value of music for the dignity of the human being.
This great Master will remain in our thoughts as a man of infinite soul, who made a palpable dream come true in which music can save lives by rescuing the illusions of hundreds of thousands of children and young people who today belong and make life a beautiful initiative created by a great musician and an exemplary Venezuelan.
Forever MASTER
(+March 24, 2018)
