A Sistema For The Banlieue: Intensive Music Education In A Poor Paris Suburb

“Six months ago none of these children had played a musical instrument. Now, they are a handful of rehearsals away from performing in the prestigious Pleyel Hall in central Paris … The concert is the culmination of the ‘Demos Orchestra’ project, an ambitious scheme which took 450 children aged seven to 12, living in disadvantaged areas of the Parisian suburbs, and taught them to play an instrument from scratch.”