At the time, the Glenn Gould Foundation staged a weeklong music festival here, noted Brian Levine, executive director of the foundation, in an email. His death was announced by the Simon Bolivar Musical Foundation, which runs the program he founded, El Sistema. Its success brought worldwide attention and imitators: there are now youth orchestras inspired by El Sistema in more than 70 nations. Abreu had stepped down from running El Sistema in recent years because of illness. El Sistema, for its part, said on its website it would continue “playing, singing and fighting” — in his honour.

Source: thestar March 27, 2018 21:56 UTC