Price Hill-based MYCincinnati(Music for Youth in Cincinnati) is a renowned free youth orchestra program for urban children. They learn violin, viola, cello or bass through a system that seeks social change. El Sistema, Venezuela?'s revolutionary youth orchestra program, inspired MYCincinnati. Composer-performer, teacher and violinist Eddy Kwon directs the program.
He joins us today along with local documentariansMichael and Henry Wilson of Cincinnati Recording Service, an evolving audio and video recording company. The Wilson's produced a documentary about MYCincinnati'sAmbassador Ensemble, which is available for pre-order. There is a screening of the documentary at the Warsaw Ave. Film Festival at the Firehouse(the new home of MYCincinnati) on Saturday, November 21.