Kappelrodeck (st). The various courses from the elementary area at the music school Achern-Oberkirch were presented with a colorful program in the Achertalhalle in Kappelrodeck. A total of well over 100 children were on the stage. Susanne Wittlage, disguised as Willibald the gnome, led the program with dances, songs and hands-on activities. The Achertalhalle, which was filled to capacity, was invited to sing along.
The hands-on concert began with the Musikkäfer courses, in which small children can gain their first musical experience with their parents. They sang and danced to “Bibabutzemann” and the song “Tante Trude”. A particularly colorful picture resulted from the rain dance with colorful umbrellas, which the three-year-old children performed. The Musikkäfer courses are aimed at parents with their children up to the age of three. The Kruse are directed at the music school by Susanne Wittlage and Kathrin Hauser. The latter had chosen the topic of the construction site for the performance of their groups. Together with the music beetles, the hard-working craftsmen of the construction site were sung about. A rhythm piece showed the children of the drum gang disguised as construction workers. The young musicians between the ages of six and eight performed a rhythmic performance with large sound bars. The following group of the instrument carousel played the various instruments that they got to know in the one-year course at the music school. The construction workers, led by Kathrin Hauser, said goodbye with a construction site dance.
The early music education groups of music school teacher Marylène Gibert-Lung presented themselves disguised as monkeys. The children from the age of four sang German and French songs with great expression. With early musical education, the music school offers a pre-school musical learning opportunity that takes place in kindergartens or in the music school. Desirée Lobé’s early music education courses had rehearsed pop and jazz songs in class, which they presented accompanied by movement. The holistic musical experience is the focus of the weekly early music education courses. Singing, moving and experimenting with sounds should appeal to children’s entire sensory world of experience. This was also shown by Katherine Flynn-Hartmann’s courses. Supported by their parents, they performed the dance of the butterflies and a rhythmic lava dance. At the end the children sang German and English songs. They were skilfully accompanied by Roman Kühn on the piano.
Music school director Jakob Scherzinger thanked everyone involved: “The elementary area provides the basis for a lifelong engagement with music. At our music school, the joy of music should already be awakened in small children. Because making music has an overall positive effect on the motor and mental development of children.”
The joy of the music could not only be seen in the beaming faces of the children involved, but also in the audience.
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