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GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Education
"I want to deliver live music to all the children in the prefecture."
Based on this idea, the "Mobile Music School", which began in 1947, is one of the origins of Gunkyo's activities.
Currently, in addition to music classes at elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools, and "Piyo Piyo Concerts" for young children,
We hold concerts at schools outside the prefecture as a traveling concert.
In addition, we are working to cultivate the next generation of performers.
Members of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra will provide direct instruction to students in the prefecture's brass band clubs.
We also hold musical instrument seminars.
The Mobile Music Classroom is a concert held for elementary school and junior high school students throughout Gunma Prefecture. After the war, due to changes in the educational system, "songs" were changed to "music" in schools, and the scope expanded to include singing, musical instruments, appreciation, and creative writing. The first mobile music school was held in Annaka City, Gunma Prefecture on May 1947, 22, thinking that "if we brought in an orchestra, they would be happy."
At that time, the prefecture's transportation network was not well developed, and it was difficult for the group members to drive their own cars, transport their instruments, and sometimes use the railway to travel to schools throughout the prefecture. With the single-minded desire to bring live music to the world, we have held mobile music classes at many schools, including those in mountainous areas. This idea has spread both within and outside the prefecture, and we have received the cooperation of many conductors and players.
Systematized in 1982, it has become established as a system unique to Gunma Prefecture, in which elementary and junior high school students in the prefecture listen to an orchestra once every three years.Currently, mobile music classes are held approximately 57 times a year.
By 2023 (Reiwa 5), more than 650 million children and students will have watched it, and it has created Gunma Prefecture's classical culture = orchestral culture to this day, and is widely recognized by Gunma residents as an activity that supports the foundations of local culture. I am.
As the next stage of our mobile music classes, we are offering high school students in Gunma Prefecture the opportunity to listen to music in a more serious program.
The purpose is to make classical music more familiar and to foster a rich sense of emotion.
This is a traveling concert for children who will be the leaders of the next generation.
This is a cultural experience project that aims to improve creativity, communication skills, and art appreciation skills, and is a place where children from outside the prefecture and elsewhere can enjoy the same performances they enjoyed at the mobile music school. .
We go to kindergartens, daycare centers, and certified childcare centers to perform concerts with the aim of nurturing a love of art and imagination by getting children familiar with live music from an early age and experiencing the joy of music.
We focus on experiential programs that allow children to sing along to easy-to-understand and fun classical music, nursery rhymes, and other songs and express themselves physically.
One instructor will be dispatched to the elementary and junior high schools where the Gunma Symphony Orchestra's mobile music classes are held (at the request of the elementary and junior high schools) to carry out outreach. Increase interest in the mobile music classroom and the effectiveness of the orchestra experience.
Members of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra provide direct guidance to junior high school brass band and wind orchestra students in Gunma Prefecture. We are implementing this in cooperation with local governments, boards of education, and cultural facilities.
This is a valuable opportunity for children to experience face-to-face demonstration performances, technical consultation, and detailed advice, which brings out the children's motivation and spirit of challenge.