Music, Science and Education

When you have children and you are preocupied with their education, you may start reading, asking questions, talking with the teachers and the more you know the more you are perplexed?
Well, this is a place where we would love to share experiences and ask educators, scientists and artists for their input.
We are willing to measure results and write down steps with date and special interesting points.
The form of the blog is just work in progress, but we are sure something good will come from it.
If there is someone who would prefer to write to us in another language, please feel free to. In the staff we manage german, english, spanish, dutch, italian and french. For the rest we may find a translator.

To start with, we want you to know that a chamber orchestra has been started with 10 violins, 2 cellos and 1 bass in the strings.
Besides that we count with 2 triangle players, but of course you must know that they are extremely young: 2 years old. The oldest in the orchestra is 9 years old and we have 2 conductors, the principal and his assistant who also plays the violin.

The main idea is to put the children into an atmosphere where they may learn much quicker than with traditional education.
Until now we have given about 6 public presentations and children themselves introduce their instruments to the audience, what encourages them to speak in public and lose theri natural frightness to be in front of many people.

Antoher main line is to have speechers, professionals of other areas ( not only artistic or scientific) to speak to the children about their jobs.
We started last week with an architect who talked about velarias" which are structures as old as romans and we made models which were prepared thouroghly by the architect. It was so lovely not only beacuse children learned so much, but because the parents were also involved .

We have many more ideas, but we come to the point where finacial aid is needed and we kindly request your help.
If you want to know more about ways to help, please feel free to contact us.
We believe our project is wonderful to help children to be away fro the violence and distractors such as TV.

We are looking for musicians who would like to teach us how to play horn, oboe and trumpet.
We are in desperately need of such instruments and if someone knows where we can find them used and cheap, please let us know.
Remember, you are the most important part of this blog. Otherwise we would even bother to publish anything. We believe in real communication and the internet for good purposes.
Thanks so much!!!