José Abreu, Founder of Acclaimed El Sistema, Dies at Age 78

Remembering El Sistema founder José Abreu, hearing Debussy play his own music and discovering an arresting new cello release.

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José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan Who Envisioned Musical Education For All, Dead At 78 Abreu began El Sistema in Venezuela in 1975 with fewer than a dozen students — 40 years later, his system has been used throughout the world to unite children through musical education. Read this story First Listen First Listen: Clarice Jensen, 'For This From That Will Be Filled' The cellist makes meditative, sometimes disorienting music with pedals, loops, sine tones and an expansive imagination. Read this story Deceptive Cadence Songs We Love: Debussy, 'La Plus Que Lente' Marking the 100th anniversary of the visionary composer's death, hear Debussy play his own music on a 1913 piano roll. Read this story Deceptive Cadence 'After Bach' Offers Brad Mehldau's Well-Tempered Jazz Inspired by J.S. Bach, jazz pianist Brad Mehldau alternates originals from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier with his own reinventions. Read this story South X Lullabies South X Lullaby: Max Richter The audience slept, dreamed and sometimes snored — it's okay, that's what it's for — through this trance-inducing experience. Read this story

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