Description of the Project
The project consists of a series of meetings between musicians, teachers and students, in which a specific theme concerning human rights will be tackled. Students will be called upon to gather data on the subject. At the same time, music pieces will be chosen to be studied by the students together with their music teachers and with the musicians first, and then performed all together in the show-concert, in which readings of testimonials and musical performances will alternate.
Target
Students, music teachers and teachers of humanities in secondary schools with music majors.
Goals
a) to spread human rights culture
b) to spread the understanding that the practice of music can be a means for civil and social growth, as well an efficient tool for the assertion and defence of human rights
c) to create an orchestra modelled on the Human Rights Orchestra
Realization Steps
a) Introductory meetings with the targeted teachers, during which the theme to be studied in depth by the students will be chosen. It will be then up to the teachers to prepare the students on the subject of human rights in general and on the chosen theme in particular.
b) Get together with musicians and students. Presentation of the Movement through showing of videos. Introduction of all six musicians who will talk of their experiences and perform some music pieces.
c) Choice of the program. Presentation of a piece written especially for the chosen theme by the composer of the Movement. Members of the orchestra.
d) Monthly meetings with the musicians to check the progress in preparing the Orchestra.
e) Finale with the show-concert, consisting of readings of testimonials gathered by the students on the chosen theme, together with the showing of videos and the execution of the chosen musical pieces by the students’ and Human Rights Orchestra. To close the event: the performance of a musical piece played by the students together with the musicians of the HRO.
Participants in the “Music for Human Rights” project
Secondary School G.G. Belli, Roma
School year 2009-2010
The theme chosen by the students is The Right to Water
Students of the classes 2B, 3C, 2L, 3L with music majors.
Music teachers: Gisella Pizzoferrato, Edvige Gallina, Silvio Pulcioni, Marco
Quaranta, Maurizio Felici, Paolo Marcello Venzi, Francesco Filomeno, William
Persichilli, Mauro Baiocco, Nicoletta Castracane
Humanities teachers: Hèlène Angiolini, Marica Nicoletti, Adele Colella
Musicians of the Movement Musicians for Human Rights: Alessio Allegrini, Anita
Mazzantini, Alfredo Mola, Lavinia Morelli, Marlène Prodigio, Francesco Senese,
Stefano Trevisan.
Paolo Marzocchi, composer, author of the piece “La meccanica del ruscello” (the
mechanism of the brook), written specifically for the students.
Guido Barbieri, music critic and host at Radio Tre, who lectured on Music and Water
Ugo Fanti, assistant representative of Amnesty International for the Region of Lazio
Anna Maria Guelfi Massari, project coordinator.
