Thomas Gansch: 'everybody has to develop his own way to play'

Look for the one's own way...

Awesome demonstration of our Education system in a single image.

Feeling better with age..

Fewer bad memories?
There are several theories that might explain why people feel better with age that don't have to do with lifestyle factors. It could be, for example, that older people are better at controlling their emotions than younger people. Or it might have something to do with nostalgia, the idea that older people remember fewer negative memories and so are happier.

Smacking children reduces emotional intelligence

Smacking children reduces their emotional intelligence and makes their behaviour even worse, claims a new study.

Now on...

Orchestra da Camera Italiana

At: Palazzo Vallelonga, Torre del Greco (NA)

Conductor and Soloist: Salvatore Accardo

Tartini second concerto for violin and orchestra, performed on the amazing couple made by S. Accardo and his Stradivari.

G. Mahler 7th Symphony

At: Teatro La Fenice

Conductor: Eliahu Inbal

The magic of the Scherzo tone colours...

Midsummer night's Dream

Mendelssohn and Shakespeare

At: Teatro La Fenice

Conductor: Gabriele Ferro

The joy of performing with light depth.

Opening concert of Operaestate Festival

Villa Comello, Galliera Veneta

One of my favorite pieces performed tonight: Guglielmo Ratcliff's Intermezzo, by Mascagni

DAS RHEINGOLD by Richard Wagner

At: Teatro La Fenice

Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek

STAGIONE LIRICA E BALLETTO 2011

http://www.teatrolafenice.it/

LA FENICE IN INDONESIA, THE JOY IN A VIOLIN

ANSA/ MUSIC: 

LA FENICE IN INDONESIA, THE JOY IN A VIOLIN.
SARA MICHIELETTO HAS SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS IN INDONESIA WORKING WITH UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN 

(by Maurizio Salvi)

(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, 13 JUNE – To underscore the oft-neglected but significant social dimension of music, the Venice Opera House Teatro La Fenice encouraged one of its top violinists, Sara Michieletto, to spend some months in Indonesia developing a programme directed at fostering the promotion of classical music and offering a joyous approach to it to disadvantaged children and young people. 

The programme, entitled 'The Strains of Violin in South East Asia 2010-2011', has just come to an end and it followed the broad outline of a similar initiative which Sara successfully directed two years ago in Chennai, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.    


In an interview with ANSA, Michieletto told us that she worked in three different locations (Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Surabaya), where she organized nine concerts and two shows, one of which for Radio Republik Indonesia, broadcast live on radio and TV, in addition to numerous ‘Introduction to Music’ lessons and master classes.  

Inauguration concert of Jogyakarta Chamber Music Festival

PROGRAMME INDONESIA CMF 2011

Concert I | Wednesday ,11 May 2011 , 19.30 | Concert Hall ISI Yogyakarta

Music keeps the mind sharper as people age

April 20, 2011

Childhood Music Lessons May Provide Lifelong Boost 

in Brain Functioning

Research explores possible link between early musical study and cognitive benefits

WASHINGTON—Those childhood music lessons could pay off decades later - even for those who no longer play an instrument – by keeping the mind sharper as people age, according to a preliminary study published by the American Psychological Association. 

The study recruited 70 healthy adults age 60 to 83 who were divided into groups based on their levels of musical experience. The musicians performed better on several cognitive tests than individuals who had never studied an instrument or learned how to read music. The research findings were published online in the APA journal Neuropsychology.