{"id":1416,"date":"2013-09-28T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2013-09-28T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T11:45:20","slug":"if-you-paint-your-village-you-paint-the-whole-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If you paint your village, you paint the whole world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1422\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image9.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image9.jpg 640w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image9-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image9-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Berta-Rojas-English-Page\/137150679572\" target=\"_blank\">Berta Rojas<\/a>&#8216; new album \u201cSalsa Roja\u201d was released last month, paying tribute to her beloved Latin America. But what makes this collection of music extra special is the collaboration with the Recycled Instruments Orchestra of Cateura \u2014 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfillharmonicmovie.com\/\">Landfill Harmonic Orchestra<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a 19-member ensemble comprised of children from Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay who perform using instruments they have built from recycled trash. Berta is also working to design what she hopes will be the Cateura Music School, the town\u2019s very first music school with real instruments.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t catch it, this heartwarming video is a backstage look at the project she was involved in, in her native Paraguay, with composer and conductor Ed\u00edn Sol\u00eds and the children of Loma San Jer\u00f3nimo.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yW7e_rG7o1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nbclatino.com\/2013\/08\/29\/award-winning-classical-guitarist-brings-real-instruments-to-kids-in-paraguay\/\">NBCLatino<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redshoemovement.com\/famous-hispanic-people-berta-rojas\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Another recent article on Berta.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course, remember that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maefoundation.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">MAE Foundation<\/a> is also concerned with children with a less privileged background along the Burmese border, and you can support them in the UK at the <a title=\"The Midst of Life\u2019 A Hearty Celebration of the Life and Music of STEPHEN DODGSON (1924-2013)\" href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/?p=1305\">celebration of Stephen Dodgson&#8217;s \u00a0life and work on the 3rd October<\/a>\u00a0in St.James&#8217;s Church, Piccadilly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1430\" alt=\"Landfill orchestra\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image10-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image10-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image10-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image10.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berta Rojas&#8216; new album \u201cSalsa Roja\u201d was released last month, paying tribute to her beloved Latin America. But what makes this collection of music extra special is the collaboration with the Recycled Instruments Orchestra of Cateura \u2014 or\u00a0Landfill Harmonic Orchestra\u00a0\u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=1416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,77,41],"tags":[75,443,445,441,444,440,411,446,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}