/ world today news/ A news that I read on one of my favorite sites, “With a book and a film”, brought me back to a sick topic that I have been persistently writing about for years. Recent scientific research by American scientists proves, in a categorical way, that listening to classical music can significantly improve hearing, spatial thinking skills and even intelligence. Yes, sensational news indeed. It is about the so-called “Mozart effect“. It was first reported back in 1993 by scientists from the University of California, Irvine. It was then that the first experiment, and a very successful one at that, was carried out. A group of 32 people were asked to listen to one of the sonatas of the Salzburg genius, while another group listened to selected but more relaxing music while being asked to stand quietly for ten minutes. Those who have listened to Mozart have significantly increased their skills within the next 10-15 minutes.
In the same American university, the long-term effects of music on the brain of 3-4-year-old children were also studied. They were given piano lessons for half a year. At the end of the training, these children successfully passed a test with different questions about space and time and performed 50% better than their peers who had no musical training and listened to classical music. According to the scientists who led the experiment, this result was due to the greater plasticity of the young brain and the duration of its exposure to music.
This new experiment proves, quite categorically – for what time? – that MUSIC HEALS, THAT IT INFLUENCES POSITIVELY ON OUR BRAIN, INTELLECT, MENTAL STATE. Not by chance in For many years, Vienna has had an institute of melotherapy, treatment by listening to selected artistic or as we call it in our country, “classical music”. In fact, a number of specialists claim that the child should listen to such music while still in the mother’s womb. Its effect on his mental, psychic, intellectual development is truly astounding. And the opposite of the “rhythms from the jungle” invariably dulls /kills the brain cells!/ and affects the hearing, gradually becoming deaf. But a number of municipalities in Bulgaria began to compete in organizing various “fests” for rock, pop, jazz, chalga and in this way, instead of educating the young, they began to simplify them. And at these “fests” they started behaving wildly like at football matches. And maybe this is the goal of today’s government? Rude, primitive young people. Even so, education is systematically and purposefully going downhill. But the government does not need educated young people at all.
But my word here is about the MUSIC AND THE CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOL.
Unfortunately, the sound and musical environment in the homeland of Orpheus and Boris Hristov is terribly polluted by chalga, pop, rap, rock and jazz. These low genres have brazenly displaced not only Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Tchaikovsky, but even the lighter ones – Johann Strauss and Vivaldi.
In the kindergarten next to the block where I live, in the musical and European Rousse, the teachers regularly play these “jungle sounds” to the little ones instead of Mozart and Vivaldi. And so it is everywhere in Bulgaria, which is becoming more and more civilized. Neither the teachers of all grades, nor the electronic media/ not even the BNR, which completely reduced the share of artistic music, even in its supposedly cultural program “Hristo Botev”/, nor the SEM, which allowed such ugly phenomena as the chalga radios to appear / the most aggressive among them is “Veselina”/, nor the chalga-televisions, led by Nova – they simply do not think about the damage they cause especially to the development of children, adolescents and young people. Yes, I will emphasize it thickly: the guilt of these media is unforgivable, enormous, with grave consequences. The majority of young Bulgarians already have a low level of musical culture, they have become coarse, put it simply, they listen loudly to this “music” that is harmful to the hearing and the brain. Especially when taken with headphones or at high decibels. It was about the decibels. The frenzy at the discos, not only in the resorts, but also in the whole country, must be put to an end. It is a shame that we are celebrated as a country of world-class singers and musicians, and our children grow up and live in this simplistic environment.
Another problem is the reduced lessons in singing and music, not well composed textbooks / in one of them I saw a photo of Itso Stoichkov, and in another there were two lines about Mozart: “German” / not Austrian, as it is! / composer wrote symphonies” – only this?!/, the abandonment of an old fruitful tradition of ours – the school choirs and orchestras… Yes, the state and the media are to blame!
Here I would like to mention what is being done on this subject in distant Venezuela. There, the state pursues a very reasonable policy – it supports the creation and development of children’s and youth school choirs and symphony orchestras. The program of the famous composer, conductor and teacher Maestro Jose Antonio Abreu is attended by absolutely all students from this country, whose musical culture is much younger and less developed than ours. There, the government believes that these children and adolescents, instead of staying on the street with the risk of some of them becoming criminals too!, listening to the ugly rhythms of the low genres, to develop as educated and cultured people, should be necessarily included in this musical training, although few of them will go on to become professional musicians. But one of these children, who went through this massively conceived and state-supported educational program, is today’s world-renowned conductor. Gustavo Dudamel / born in 1981/, reached La Scala, Metropolitan, Vienna and Berlin. An experience we should learn from, but first the Ministry of Education should increase music lessons / fix music textbooks / and recommend that schools restore their choirs and orchestras. Years ago, quite a few Bulgarian high schools even had student symphony orchestras, and now even the music teachers simply do not take the children to the educational concerts. Not to mention an opera or a symphony concert like it used to be. And our opera houses and orchestras, as far as they remained after the destructive “cultural” reform with the “delegated budgets”/ this absurdity!/, have special good programs for children of all ages. But the Ministry of Education is still far from the topic of music education, it wonders which other authors which work should be thrown out of the textbooks and shorten entire periods of Bulgaria’s history. And finally, how far will we, the people from the homeland of Orpheus and Boris Hristov, go? Maybe to the jungle…
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