Colico (Lake of Como), July 23/25, 2009

The Musicians for Human Rights, young talented people coming from all over the world, gather on Lake Como as guests of the “Music Festival sull’Acqua” of Colico, coming together for the first time to form the Human Rights Orchestra,  under the direction of the founder of the initiative, Alessio Allegrini. The HRO with its music, determination and ideals, comes to Colico with a precise objective: to talk about the Right to Education, and to gather funds to help the Association Al Kamandjati to rebuild a music school which has been destroyed in Jenin (Palestine).

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July 23, 2009 –  Varenna, Villa Monastero

“Creativity and the right of the young to knowledge”

Conference with: Guido Barbieri, Daniel de Montmollin and Patricia Belotti

Musical introduction by the Human Rights Orchestra musicians

• Felix Mendelssohn Ottetto in mi bemolle maggiore per archi Op.20

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July 24, 2009 – Mantello (SO), La Fiorida

“Festival and Musicians for Human Rights”

Concert and dinner to sustain the association “AL KAMANDJATI”

an initiative by Musicians for Human Rights, to show how music can help humans who live their lives in great distress and deterioration.

Concert with the musicians of the Human Rights Orchestra

• Jean Francaix Wind Quintet n° 1
• Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky Sestetto per archi in re minore “Souvenir de Florence” Op.70

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July 25, 2009 – Lecco, Basilica di San Nicolò

“Closing Concert”

The concert opened with a story of rights denied: the story of Randa, a Palestinian girl born in a refugee camp in Lebanon, wounded during a heavy bombardment, and growing up without the possibility to cultivate her passion for music. A conference on education and creativity followed. This was an important moment of meditation and in depth analysis on the real ability of music and art to effect creative growth in our young people. The funds raised during the concert have been given to the non-profit organization Kamadjati, a cultural association operating in Palestine to create music schools in the occupied territories and in refugee camps, which aklready has hundreds of students.

Human Rights Orchestra – Alessio Allegrini (conductor) – Francesco Senese (violin) – Guido Barbieri (music critic) – Youth Choir from the “R. Goitre” School in Colico (Giorgio Senese conductor)

• Claudio Cavallini, Paolo Marzocchi “Randa’s Dream” for spoken voice and instruments, text by Guido Barbieri
• Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e minor, Op. 64
• Paolo Marzocchi “L’Albero II” for children’s choir and orchestra, from “Logos” a poem by Joseph Denize – video show by Mariangela Malvaso
• Felix Mendelssohn Italian Symphony  no. 4 in A Op. 90