evviva la musica















	TO INVOLVE MEANS MADE APPRECIATE The idea to spread Classical music! From this simple and charming point of departure begins our project “Evviva la Musica”. We wanted to launch a challenge: play four concerts for piano and flute in some schools where the audience would have be made up by children and fellows. Charming idea, but how could we realize a so hard project? To explain, to induce the audience’s attention to focus on a particular: this is what makes the difference and makes a concert something very special. But what could we do with teenagers that usually listen to different music and with children that don’t have so big attention? So our project “Evviva la Musica” began and it involved children from 3 rd year at Primary School to fellow attending last year at High School. During 2004 this project began and it helped us understanding how made classical music to be listened by various audience and how this music changed during centuries from social, instrumental and technical point of view. The four programs are: “Baroque Geography”: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, D’aquin, “Sonata”: Mozart, Salieri “Date at the Drawing room”: Beethoven, Chopin, Rossini, Borne, Schumann, and Schubert “XX-XXI”: Francaix, Prokofiev, Zampetti, Debussy, Berio, Rota, Bartok In these four concerts audience listened to music that cover a period of time from Bach to Berio. But the big news was the fact they approached to music playing. Games were a lot and often so funny that children asked us to play it again in order to make the game for the second time. And Bach, Mozart, Brio, François began to be familiar to them These children began to be aware of names that learned people don’t know and they began talking about Debussy, Berio’s sequence, sonata…. Well, it’s not a little thing!! We inserted in the program an easy piece of music in order to make all the children learned it in a few minutes and we made them sing it together. One day while Claudio and I were going to a Primary school to play a concert,(that is something very different from an academic lesson!!) we found out that if a child attending the 3 rd year at Primary school would have taken part to “Evviva la musica” until last year of the same school, he would have listened to 12 concerts of classical music! More than all concerts their parents and grandparents had listened during their whole lives... If the same child would have taken part to our project “Evviva la musica” until he’ll graduated he would have taken part to 44 concerts!! “Evviva la musica” is a project that had a big success. It has been also requested by some “Youth Aggregation” Centers and after the concerts the psychologists found out that fellows were talking about...Vivaldi. That’s a great satisfaction. If you need further info about the project feel free to contact me! Some children wrote some comments about their experience. It’s not possible to make all of them appear here. I’ve chosen some of the most meaningful... For some privacy reasons we couldn’t write the name of the child who wrote it. Comments about “Evviva 2004- 05” will be publish with their names after thier parents’ authorization. Comments about Evviva... " But what is this? Is school or happiness for our souls that fills our heart and makes us wondering “but why it’s already finished?” It’s both of things and in the end you find out that you’ve learnt something important, something funny and great: you’ve learnt to listen, to know and to understand. That’s the thought of a simple headmaster at the end of the four concerts played by Masters Claudio e Sergio Zampetti for the students of our Primary School “S. Carlo” in Saronno. The careful choice of passages , the perfect execution , the great fusion of flute and piano that has the power of an orchestra and has the educational capacity to involve the audience and drag to great applause…and teach us . I think my students have been very lucky because these four concerts have been a great opportunity to increase the didactic program making it richer and more human ." Maria Pia Ronaldo (S.Carlo institute Director) "...it would be a meaningful experience if we could do it every year ..." "...it’s a positive experience because Zampetti Brothers are very good players and they succeed in involving all the audience" "...I like these concerts very much not only because we played with others children but also because I’ve learnt a lot of things I didn’t know before..." "...the thing I liked most is the game of identification of instrument’s sounds also if I didn’t win too much...” "... I think the idea of these concerts is great!!..." "...I like the idea of a challenge between two classes because it’s funny and involves you too much. And I’ve discovered how pleasant could be classical music and I’ve learnt how to listen to it in the right way..." "... I’ll never forget this experience...” "... They’ve played wonderful music pieces and the one I’ve liked the most is Mozart’s Minuetto. It’s a pity that experience takes only four lessons..." "...I’d like it most if lessons would have been more than four..." "...Musicians are great! I couldn’t stop looking at Sergio’s or Claudio’s hands during the concerts. I was really fascinated…" "...it’s a positive experience because I like the way the masters involved us completely. They’ve never been boring...” "...I’ve never listened to classical music before and probably I would never do, but your concerts make me wonder to see a big one...” "...originality in helping us to appreciate classical music." "...It has been a funny way to appreciate classical music; I’ve never had this opportunity before..." "...I’ve discovered my passion for classical music..." "...Evviva la Musica project is very useful. Because the masters make us play in a good way and are so enthusiastic…" “...it’s a good idea for learning how to listen to classical music, to create images and how to have fun with musical games and listening challenges..." Evviva la musica” will take place also during 2005, programs will be different but we’ll keep the same way to present them . EVVIVA LA MUSICA” CONCERTS - 2004 2005 PROMENADE M. Mussorgsky Gnomus F. Poulenc Presto giocoso A. Vivaldi Primavera F. Poulenc Cantilena P. Ciaikowsky Danza dallo Schiaccianoci N. Rimsky Korsakov Il volo del calabrone PING PONG COL TEMPO A. Honegger Danza della capra / J. S. Bach Bourrèe F. Chopin Scherzo /A. Casella Scherzo G. Puccini Valzer di Musetta / S. Zampetti Valzer blu W. A. Mozart Theme and variation / C. Zampetti Theme and variation 6 PERSONAGGI IN CERCA DI MUSICA A. Roussel Tytire J. Mouquet Pan C. Zampetti Arold Lloyd M. Mussorgsky Samuel Goldberg e Schmuyle R. Schumann Chopin *STATI D’ANIMO* F. Poulenc Allegro malinconico R. Schumann Slancio J. Francaix Moto perpetuo C. Zampetti Gaio F. Schubert Variazioni op. 160 " To evolve means make appreciate "