Music+and+Shadows

=Music and Shadows: A Taste of Classical Music= This series of music workshops has been designed to introduce children to a selection of classical music. In some workshops the music, arranged by Geoff Jowett, has been simplified so that interested children can play the themes on the piano, recorder or guitar, or all three together.
 * Taste Number 1 - Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck** **Taste Number 2 - Coppelia by Leo Delibes**
 * Taste Number 3 - Maryushka and the Firebird - Tchaikowsky **
 * Taste Number 4 - The Little Match Girl (Borodin, Vienna Boys' Choir, Pie Jesu (Weber)**
 * Taste Number 5 - The Butterfly Dance (The Butterfly Lovers Concerto by** **Chen Gang and He Zhanhao)**
 * Taste Number 6 - Aurora Dance** **(Pax Deorum by Enya)**
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Whether shadow theatre or creative dance, the rehearsals required for the performances, ensure maximum exposure to the music. The workshops also introduce students to the various roles and conventions required in mounting a theatrical production.

=Taste Number 4:= =Auschwitz - The Sorrowful Symphony by Henryk Gorecki= In this workshop senior students attempt to capture in shadows, the chilling message of the Holocaust.

The Background....
= "Forget You Not" =
 * [[image:PreservingPast.gif]] || ==The Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project:==

[|Visit the project here]
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= of the Liberation of Auschwitz =
 * [[image:young-europeans-only-know-the-holocaust-through-war-movies-young-europeans-feelings-holocaust-war-movies.jpg width="260" height="292" align="center"]] || = On the 65th Anniversary =

//Ave Maria.//
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town close to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Gorecki said he wrote //The Sorrowful Symphony// (1977) as a witness and with a warning. The music is mournful and harrowing. It has simple lyrics partly based on words taken from a message etched by an 18 year old girl on the walls of a Gestapo jail. || media type="youtube" key="miLV0o4AhE4" height="385" width="480"
 * Gorecki** was born in Poland in 1933. He lived in a small

If this video fails to load, visit this site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4 || On November 9, 1938, triggered by the assassination of a German diplomat by a German-born Polish Jew, the Nazis began a reign of terror against the Jews. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. This became known as //Kristallnacht//, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. The unimaginable horror of the Holocaust was unreigned....
 * [[image:gorecki.gif width="346" height="238"]] || == Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass ==

Read Susan's Story [|here]
|| For A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenhau **[|click here]** || .
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