(ANS – Washington)– Hundreds of people who had filled the Concert Hall of Kennedy Centre at Washington a few days ago, had listened with great joy the melodies played by 130 children and teens who formed the Orchestra and the Symphonic Choir of Poligono Don Bosco of San Salvador.  Through music they succeeded to keep themselves away from extreme violence and criminality, widely present in the Central American capital.

The dream of this group of musicians, (of children and teens) born and brought up in Ciudad Credisa, an area most violent in San Salvador, has come true. At the concert they placed popular numbers like “El Carbonero” of Francisco Pancho Lara; “Carneval” of Celia Cruz and a medley of Perez Prado combined with piece from the classicals like “Hallelujah” of Handel and “Lacrimosa” of Mozart – reported “El Tiempo Latino”, one of the publications of the daily “The Washington Post”.

It was first of the concerts of Orchestra and the Symphonic Choir of Poligono Don Bosco from San Salvador, in their American tour. It is scheduled to perform in front of the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, at the “Columbia Heights Educational Foundation” and in front of the World Bank, before going on a visit to the White House, the “Smithsonian Institution” of museums and other attractions of the capital of United States.

Fr. José Moratalla, a Salesian and the architect of the EDYTRA Foundation and mentor of these youngsters, thanked, at the beginning of the first concert, “everyone those who helped in making this possible, especially Roberto Kriete, the founder and president of Avianca, who provided a whole chartered flight for the youngsters to travel”.

The others who helped in realising this concert were the External Affairs Ministry of El Salvador, the Ambassador of El Salvador to Washington and the director of the World Bank for Central America.

“Since boarding the flight in El Salvador and landing in Virginia, except for little turbulence, the magic that was set in place for us in the flight by Avianca, these children and the teens have had an experience of being in Disneyworld”, said Fr. Moratalla in presenting the Orchestra.

Published on 20/05/2015