That was a special guest performance: three professional musicians reported to students in Gaißach on behalf of the "International Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Civilization" about their everyday life.
Gaißach - Staying in one place for more than an hour and taking a break from your cell phone, listening with full concentration and only applauding in the right places: Pupils aged 11 to 16 did it all very well, as three professional musicians in the Commissioned by the "International Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Civilization" based in Munich, they recently performed in the Gaißach secondary school with works from the Classical and Romantic periods.
Chamber music in the gym
"Music for schoolchildren" is the name of the project, which aims to introduce children and young people to music that is mostly unfamiliar to them.
In the school gym, where apparatus gymnastics and ball games usually take place, chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Sergei Prokofiev was on the program.
Music knows no borders
Baritone Thomas Schütz, the Japanese-born pianist Haruka Ebina and Tölzer Elisabeth Heuberger (violin) with German-Japanese parents also stood for the internationality of the music: "We are united by the language of music, we don't have any arguments and we don't have any either Wars against each other,” Thomas Schütz emphasized the power of culture to unite peoples.
And with regard to the "old" music of the 19th century, he made it clear that despite the archaic language and forms, the emotions associated with it have remained the same.
By asking the students what they had heard, Thomas Schütz was able to convince himself that they were really fully engaged.
The International Cultural Foundation, which is funded by both private and government sources, speaks of the positive “side effects” of making music, namely an increase in concentration, accuracy and memory.
All schools can apply to the foundation for such an event.
The middle school in Gaißach has already had success twice and now even has the prospect of a third guest concert.
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