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Week of July 24, 2010

Hout Bay's Young Musicians
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Hout Bay students preparing for a concert.
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Thousands of poor people live on a hillside overlooking Hout Bay outside Cape Town, South Africa. It's not where you'd expect to hear the music of Mozart, Beethoven, or Brahms. A teacher who wanted to share her love of music asked to start an orchestra class in one of the schools there. Three years later, kids who had never even seen a violin or a double bass before are now playing them, and performing all over South Africa.

Encore presentation from July 6, 2008.

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