Venezuela music project helps low-income kids even before birth

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By Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) – When Adan Bello was born in Caracas, he barely cried. Then the Venezuelan baby's blinking eyes turned towards the calm melody of a duo of harpists playing Brahms' "Cradle Song" in the corner of a public hospital's maternity wing. Minutes later, his mother received a certificate signing Adan up for Venezuela's hugely successful classical music program, known as "El Sistema" (The System). Adan was given a tiny replica violin. The state-run System has since its inception in 1975 trained 2. …