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April 30, 2010
The OAS Celebrates the Centennial of the House of the Americas
The Organization of American States (OAS) celebrated yesterday the one hundred years of its headquarters located in Washington, D.C. A highlight of the celebration was the performance of the Sainte Trinité Chamber Ensemble of Haiti, with musicians from the OASIS Program.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2010
Reaching into Haiti's Cultural Past to Lift its Future
On February 5, the École de Musique Sainte Trinité, together with the OAS and Viva Rio, a Brazilian non-governmental organization working in Haiti, united hands to support the participants and offered a music recital in Bel Air, Port-au-Prince. It was the first time since the earthquake that the Philharmonic Orchestra of Haiti and the children’s choir Les Petits Chanteurs had performed, and they used some of the instruments recovered from the rubble (...)
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February 5, 2010
Musicians Bring Harmony to Port-au-Prince
Filling some of the Haitian tragedy’s silent hours, a group of young students and music teachers brought their harmony to a refugee camp with 120 families, in what used to be a factory a little more than three weeks ago.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Yele Haïti s'associe à l'Ecole de Musique Sainte Trinité et l'OEA pour lancer la Jeune Orchestre d'Haïti
Haïti: Yele Haïti a annoncé mardi qu'elle s'est associée avec l'Ecole de Musique Sainte Trinité, la plus importante école de musique d'Haïti, et l'Organisation des Etats Américains (OEA) pour lancer la Jeune Orchestre d'Haïti.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2009
Music for social change: underprivileged children interpret the great classics OAS webpage article
Children and youth from underprivileged neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, interpreted some of the great compositions of Classical music and Haitian folk music arrangements alongside professional musicians Sunday in the third and final concert of a new regional initiative led by the Organization of American States and Haiti to prevent youth violence and reduce school drop out rates in the Caribbean.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Un dimanche d’apothéose Journal Le Nouvelliste, Haïti
Les instrumentistes, par l’introduction, créent une ambiance de negrospiritual. Les soprani appellent les basses qui leur répondent ; puis les motifs, dans une espèce de joyeuse contagion, se propagent dans toutes les voix de l’ensemble qui participent à ce grand jeu complexe d’échos, d’imitations directes ou indirectes, d’entrelacs et de contre-chants ; de tiroirs ouverts et fermés. Par Roland Léonard.
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October 26, 2009
The OAS/FEMCIDI Orchestra Program for Youth at Risk was launched with a moving concert at Courtleigh Auditorium.
According to a local Jamaican trainer, Ann McNamee, “this has been one of the most successful musical adventures I’ve ever been involved in and I’ve been involved in a lot over the years. It has not been easy with all the challenges, but the over 80 dedicated musicians playing today feel a great sense of accomplishment that no money could ever buy”.
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October 17, 2009
Marchand Youth Orchestra & Choir Concert The Voice, Saint Lucia Journal
The closing ceremony of the OAS-sponsored training workshop for Tutors who will be teaching the Marchand Youth Orchestra and Choir culminated with two very successful concerts, given at the Entrepot Human Resource Centre, on Tuesday 13 October 2009. Both concerts, one in the afternoon for schoolchildren featuring the workshop choir and string orchestra, and one for the public and special invitees in the evening, were well attended and the audiences very impressed by the high level of work displayed after just eight days of training.
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The OAS Orchestra Program in the Caribbean, also known as OASIS Caribbean, is geared towards contributing to the reduction of risk factors that result in violent behavior among youths.
The Program redirects children and youths’ spare time to an activity that takes advantage of their inherent strengths and talents via a systematic orchestral and choral training program.
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Haiti Relief Efforts:
Rebuilding Sainte Trinité
The Youth Orchestra Program in Haiti has experienced a major setback. The Program’s host school, the Ecole de Musique Sainte Trinité, has been destroyed during the earthquake together with all the Program’s instruments. Fortunately all the music instructors are safe, and the 80 Program beneficiaries had left the school half an hour before the earthquake.
Since the OASIS program started last December, Sainte Trinité served as a venue for the disadvantaged youths of Bel-Air. If we put our efforts together we can bring back the program and help rebuild the school.
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