Music In The Mountains: Deep In The Heart Of Colombia’s “Sistema”

“In the words of its director, Juan Antonio Cuellar, ‘Social action is the mission; music is the tool.’ Cuellar describes taking a plane across a remote area of the Andes, driving to the end of the only road, taking a boat to a small town … and finding the children singing songs and working in recorder ensembles exactly as they do in downtown Bogotá.”