Wednesday, November 23, 2011

A Musical Exhibition Part One

If you have been following the NYOI 2012 season plans you will know that we have a very special performance of Mussorsgky's Pictures at an Exhibition in January 2012, if not click here for more info.

The first part of this project was for the NYOI team and and the National Gallery Education Team to design a workshop that would inspire primary school children to create their own piece of art inspired by Pictures at an Exhibition (the music!) and the collection at the National Gallery of Ireland (the art!). In October, children from Cherry Orchard National School were invited to the National Gallery and with clip boards and crayons at the ready they were guided around the gallery and listened to the music. Eimear Saunders, music teacher at Cherry Orchard Performing Arts Club, writes below about the experience.


"Here in Cherry Orchard, the preparations for our role in the NYOI concert started in September. In COPAC (Cherry Orchard Performing Arts Club), the theme for this term is Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at An Exhibition’. We hit the ground running, and from our first session we made it our mission to get to know the piece from as many different angles as possible. In our orchestra class we have been learning ‘The Great Gate of Kiev’, in our singing group we’ve been learning ‘The Old Castle’ and in our art class we practised drawing portraits in preparation for what would be the big event of the term. We also listened to some of the other movements and talked about what we thought the music could be about.

All of our exploration and hard work proved worthwhile when we had the privilege of visiting the National Gallery. We were welcomed by Libby, Brina and Aoibheann and armed with pencils, crayons and paper, we got to work. First of all we listened to some movements from the piece, this time letting our pencils move with the music, coming up with some very interesting designs in the process! Then we got to see some of the Gallery’s fabulous paintings starting with the drama of Denby’s ‘The Opening of the Sixth Seal. We looked at paintings that matched the themes from ‘Pictures’ and sketched aspects of each one.


After we visited the gallery, it was the gallery’s turn to visit us, and art tutor Libby came to see us in COPAC. There we put together our designs from listening to the music along with the different aspects we had sketched from the paintings in the gallery, to create our very own ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’."

‘Going to the National Gallery was a dream come true for me’
Caitlin



Isn't this just fab?! I love Caitlin's quote at the end and having visited the Gallery with the school group I know that they were all totally captivated by the music and the fantastic stories behind the artwork. Well done to Libby (the art tutor) and Eimear (author of the above and music tutor) for all their hard work and for making it so enjoyable for the kids!

The finshed art work has now arrived in the NYOI office and I am so excited about having a look through it and working on the big unveiling of this work alongside NYOI's performance on Monday 2nd January 2012!

Until the next time...
Zoe

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  2. الحشرات من اكثر الاشياء التى تسبب الازعاج واكثر الاشياء التى لابد من التخلص منها على الفور هو الشىء الذى لابد من التاكد منه على الفور فاذا كنت تعانى من الحشرات الزاحفة او الحشرات الطائرة وتبحث عن افضل الطرق المميزة التى تساعد فى القيام باعمال المكافحة والقضاء التام على الحشرات فمن اهم ما تقوم بيه الشركة الاتى
    1- الاستعانه بافضل المبيدات المميزة التى تساعد فى القيام باعمال المكافحة والقضاء التام على الحشرات فى اقل وقت ممكن بالاضافة الى ان الشركة تعتمد على افضل التركيبات المميزة التى تساعد فى القضاء على الحشرات
    2- الاهتمام بالتعرف على افضل المعدات والاجهزة والتكنولوجية المميزة التى تساعد فى القيام باعمال الرش والوصول الى اصعب الاماكن التى تختبىء بيها الحشرات بالاضافة الى القضاء على الشقوق والفواصل واى منفذ يؤدى الى تواجد الحشرات
    3- السعى الى تحقيق افضل طرق المكافحة والقضاء التام على الحشرات الزاحفة والحشرات الطائرة والاهتمام باعمال المكافحة من خلال الايدى العامله المميزه المتواجدة فى الشركة
    تعمل شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض افضل شركة مكافحة حشرات على القيام باعمال المكافحة والقضاء التام على اى نوع من انواع الحشرات المتواجده فى المكان فاذا اراد ان تقوم باعمال المكافحة والرش فلن تجد افضل من شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض على الفور .
    افضل شركة مكافحة الحشرات بالرياض
    هناك عدد لا حصر له من الشركات التى تقوم باعمال المكافحة والتى تساعد فى القضاء على الحشرات على الفور الا ان شركتنا تاتى فى مقدمة الشركات التى تقوم بكل ذلك فمن اهم ما تقوم بيه الشركة فى اعمال المكافحة والقضاء على اى نوع من الحشرات الطائرة والحشرات الزاحفة من اهم ما تقدمه شركة مكافحة حشرات بالخرج .

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