UNITED IN MUSIC

"Our project titled „UNITED IN MUSIC“ involved 60 creative and talented students and 20 Music, IT and foreign language teachers from four different cultural and geographical regions of Europe, i.e. French school - College Maxence Van Der Meersch - from the West, Romanian school - Liceul cu Program Sportiv Alba Iulia - from the East, Lithuanian school - Varėnos ""Ąžuolo"" gimnazija - from the North and Italian school - Liceo delle Scienze Umane e Musicale ""Sebastiano Satta"" - from the South.During a two-year period, 13-17-year-old students familiarized themselves with the heritage of local and their partners’ folk music, through a project website they created, www.unitedinmusic.eu.; rehearsed and performed in 3 concerts authentic songs and their arrangements internationally in two learning activities in France and Lithuania as well as at the workhop in Italy. The international team of students and teachers released a final product, a CD, with 17 authentic folk songs and 5 arrangements.This huge and amazing trans-nationally carried out work have had a great many impacts on all its participants locally as well as internationally, especially on participating students and teachers, stimulating their creativity, self-confidence, teaching tolerance, encouraging openness to the world by discovering different European countries through a common theme of music. Our schools, thanks to the project advertising, have become more attractive for future students . In Italian partners' school, the project also helped to prevent school dropouts. Moreover, the schools involved in the project will keep in touch for new projects and exchange of good practices And finally, the most important, love for music expressed through common work of children and teachers from four different European countries has established sustainable traditions of enjoying making music together."