What comes to mind when you mention Venezuela? Hugo Chavez probably, or oil, or baseball? What probably does not come to mind is classical music.
And yet, Venezuela is the home of a music program that’s so extraordinary it has been hailed as the future of classical music itself.
As correspondent Bob Simon first reported in April, it's called "el Sistema" - "the system" - and it’s all about children, about saving them - hundreds of thousands of children - through music.
CBS 60 Minutes tells the story.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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