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THE 12TH ANNUAL PRINCE OF ASTURIAS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SCHOOL´S SUMMER COURSES CLOSED WITH 262 STUDENTS FROM NINE COUNTRIES
13/8/2007
Professors and students gave ten performances and a series of street concerts.
The Twelfth Summer Course organised by the Prince of Asturias Foundation International Music School began on Wednesday 1st August, with 262 students from Germany, France, the Isle of Man, Italy, Portugal, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Russia, Venezuela and Spain. This number of students makes it one of Spain´s best attended courses of its type.
The introductory event took place at the Príncipe Felipe Auditorium´s Chamber Hall, where Fernando Argenta opened proceedings with an inaugural lecture entitled "Classical Music. Education and Sensitivity". Last year Argenta, who is also a member of the Jury for the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, recorded "El Conciertazo" at Oviedo´s Príncipe Felipe Auditorium. The Foundation´s Children´s Choir took part in this event with a performance of The Changing of the Guard from Bizet´s Carmen.
Besides class-based teaching, the Summer School´s teachers and students gave ten free concerts at a number of different locations around Asturias. Likewise, there were a series of street concerts from 6th to 11th August, with two daily performances at emblematic squares and streets around Oviedo. In addition, musicologist Luca Chiantore is scheduled gave a conference entitled "Beethoven and improvisation".
About thirty teachers from eleven countries were teaching classes on the symphony orchestra - in addition to other traditional and contemporary instruments -, chamber music, the string quartet, the wind ensemble, folk music group and voice. This year the School also included junior orchestra as a subject.
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