The Basque Orchestra presents its "Music Room" activities for the Season
The time has come for the Basque National Orchestra's Music Room to present its activities for the season. This year the firmly entrenched Family Concerts season, hosted in Vitoria-Gasteiz and Donostia-San Sebastián, invites us to play with water to the rhythm of swing under the effects of the south wind, while the School Activities propose a variety of initiatives. Among the latter are the Concerts for Schoolchildren, which this year bring us a mouth-watering Winter Menu, Workshops and Open Rehearsals. These musical meetings with the Basque Symphony Orchestra are a nexus which in the 2011/2012 season obtained a mark of 4.5 out of 5 in the satisfaction surveys carried out among attendees (the results of these surveys can be found at the end of this dossier).
And we mustn't forget the launch of the Sinfokids 2 DVD, which continues to introduce the smallest among us to the poetry of music in an entertaining, clever, lively and amusing way.
School Concerts, first Music Room event of the season. From December 11th-14th, 1800 boys and girls from 26 schools will attend these school concerts at the headquarters of the Basque National Orchestra. The first of the 4th School Concerts organised jointly by the Basque Orchestra's Music Room and the Education Department of San Sebastian City Council, will present "Winter Menu", a fun-filled symphony concert for primary school children taking a look at the many coincidences and similarities existing between the characteristics of music and another art our pupils know only too well: gastronomy. The conductor from Gernika, today settled in Manchester, Jon Malaxetxebarria, will conduct the BNO for the first time in a series of matinée concerts hosted by the musician and radio and television presenter, Jon Gómez Garai.
