- The “Concerts for Schoolchildren” cycle, organized by the Reina Sofía School of Music and the Banco Santander Foundation in collaboration with the Community of Madrid, is committed to a technological presence with a virtual reality experience in 5 centers of the Community of Madrid.
- This XXIII edition of the cycle resumes its presence at the National Auditorium with two double concerts on February 16 and April 27, aimed at young people from 12 to 16 years old.
Madrid, February 2, 2022.- “Concerts for Schoolchildren”, a cycle organized by the Reina Sofía School of Music and the Banco Santander Foundation in collaboration with the Community of Madrid, is a program that pursues the creation and training of new audiences for classical music and is aimed at public, subsidized and private secondary education centers in Madrid.
After the restrictions and security measures adopted last year 2020-2021 in the educational community, its development could not take place as in previous editions, and it was music that, both virtually and live, approached schools, under a great technological experience and live performances in the playgrounds.
This new edition, the XXIII, will be the first to be developed in a hybrid way. The schools selected both to experience the virtual reality experience “To music! With the 5 senses”, as well as those that have been chosen to attend the concerts at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, will begin their activities this February.
“To music! With the 5 senses”
This innovative virtual reality experience for students between 12 and 16 years old (from 1st to 4th year of secondary school) will reach more than 300 young people in the Community of Madrid.
Students from five educational centers will become familiar with the artistic and musical creation of great composers in history through an experience with virtual reality glasses in which they will be immersed in a series of educational videos performed by the Camerata Fundación EDP of the Reina Sofía School: “Mozart gets lost in the night” (with Mozart’s Little Night Serenade), “Dancing with the ear” (with Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances) and “Serenading with Tchaikovsky” (with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for strings).
With a dynamic and attractive narrative rhythm, the contents of the virtual reality videos offer the keys to understanding and analyzing the works, the instruments and the feelings that are reflected in them. The content is designed with a narrative similar to that of a video game and offers a total of 13 videos, with an average duration of 3 minutes. The participant navigates freely in a virtual scenario and encounters scenes in a luthier’s workshop, on the stage of an auditorium or in virtual environments and 360º landscapes.
Concerts at the National Auditorium
In this XXIII edition, more than 2,200 young people will benefit from this activity with 2 programs for approaching and perceiving music that will be presented in a double morning session, for students between 12 and 16 years old.
On February 16, the Ensemble Ramales, under the presentation of Quiquemago, will address a concert on musical avant-gardes, and on April 27, 2022, the Saint-Saëns Group will celebrate ‘The Carnival of the Animals’. With an approximate duration of one hour, in the morning at 09.30 hours and at 12.30 hours in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorium. All concerts have a narrator and have a didactic objective.
With these informative, inclusive and free actions, hundreds of young people will enjoy this edition of the meaning and nuances of music.
