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Private and Public Institutions

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Presidenza Consiglio dei Ministri
Dipartimento della Gioventù
Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali
Dipartimento dello Spettacolo
Ministero dell'Istruzione D.G. Relazioni Internazionali

Regione Lombardia D. G. Cultura
Identità e autonomie della Lombardia
Amministrazioni Provinciali e Assessorati Cultura di:
 

- Lecco
- Como
- Milano
- Bergamo
- Terni

 

Camera di Commercio di Lecco
Cisl Provinciale di Lecco
Comunità Montana Alpi Lepontine Porlezza
Comunità Montana Lario Orientale e Valle S. Martino
Confindustria Lecco e Sondrio
Azienda Promozione Turistica del Lecchese
Associazione Amici della Musica di Sondalo
Associazione Amici della Musica - Milano Barona
Associazione Amici della Musica - Cernobbio
Associazione Edili della Provincia di Lecco
Associazione CMBA Italia
Associazione CMBA Deutschland
Associazione IncontrArti - Gallarate
Associazione Compagnia delle Opere di Lecco e Provincia
Associazione Artigiani CNA di Lecco
Associazione Piccole Industrie di Lecco
Associazione S. Francesco - Nova Milanese
Acel Service - Lecco
Caritas Ambrosiana
Casa di Cura S. Nicolò di Lecco
Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Pozzoli" - Seregno
Mia -Opera Pia Misericordia Maggiore - Bergamo
Regione Piemonte Azienda Sanitaria Ospedaliera
S. Luigi Gonzaga di Orbassano -To
Unione Commercianti Lecchesi
Ente Rassegne Musicali Ns. Signora di Loreto
Fhoederatio Internationalis "Pueri Cantores"
Bim Consorzio del Bacino Imbrifero Montano del Lago di Como del Brembo e Serio
Fondazione Cariplo
Fondazione Donizetti - Bergamo
Fondazione Comunitaria del Lecchese
Fondazione Santa Maria del Lavello
Federazione Int. "Pueri Cantores"
Fondazione Luigi Clerici
La Provincia S.p.A Editoriale - Como
Editrice "Il Resegone" Lecco
Goethe Institut Inter Nationes
Scuole Civiche di Milano Fondazione di Partecipazione
Civica Biblioteca Archivi Storici Angelo Maj - Bergamo
Gianandrea Gavazzeni Associazione Musicale - Bergamo

"School is made in music" is the Project promoted by our Association that arises from the awareness of the need to relaunch choral music within the first cycle of compulsory education, in implementation of the ministerial music programs.

Harmonia Gentium has always been attentive and sensitive to the theme of the diffusion of music among young people and the very young, and the numerous editions of the Zelioli International Festival for Youth Choirs represent the most significant example of this.

In the wake of this tradition, in 2024 we decided to take a further step to try to make the new generations aware of how useful Music can be to complete their relational and cultural experiences.

The project (financially supported by the Lecchese Foundation, the Lombardy Region, the Municipality of Lecco, Caritas Ambrosiana and various private entities) involves collaboration with one of the most important female choirs in the world: the Girl's Choir Jitro, from Hradec Kralové (Czech Republic), a significant youth group made up of around 40 girls and some boys aged between 12 and 18, selected from over 400 members in six preparatory formations.

The choir will be guests in our city from 11 to 13 October to meet their peers who are part of the school choirs in the area, so as to offer them a stimulating experiment of interaction, as well as an opportunity to express themselves through musical performances together in a completely unique context of cultural exchange.

These girls will therefore be spokespersons of human experiences and musical skills from beyond the borders, offering our students opportunities for discussion in which they can work on a repertoire previously studied with the Teachers, in an open and shared dialogue.

Beyond the event, with this project our Association wants to stimulate the start of a broader plan that sees the future involvement of other Italian or international choirs, so that this experience does not remain an end in itself but can become the springboard for a systemic and systematic activity, inserted in a cultural plan that looks to the future. The proposal of a new approach and opening of school contexts to musical events in the area would therefore offer students the opportunity to work with professionals, to exchange experiences and to learn new ideas. The musical skills that would be made available would create moments of lively and high cultural depth.

The program included the arrival in Lecco of the Jitro choir on Friday 11 October and it was busy in the evening in a concert in Mandello del Lario in which the Choir of the A.Volta Comprehensive Institute conducted by Maestro Alessandro Milesi also took part.

On the morning of Saturday 12th, the Choir met in Sala Don Ticozzi in Lecco with all the school choirs that have joined the project to prepare some pieces that will be presented that same evening during a concert organized in the Basilica of San Nicolò.

It was a busy day for the participants and their directors and teachers, a day in which they were able to compare themselves with the experience of Maestro Jiri Skopal (historical director of Jitro) and his young choristers with the hope that all this can sensitize even more "our" young people to the approach to the world of music, a world that to be properly attended requires passion and constant commitment.

There were five choral groups from the area that participated in the event representing Don Ticozzi, Liceo Grassi, ICS Calolziocorte, ICS Volta, ICS Cremeno

Finally, on Sunday 13 October the Jitro choir accompanied the 10am Holy Mass in the Basilica.

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