We will invite invite major international artists to demonstrate their support for the right of every child to obtain keys to the worlds of music and all Art forms.
We will invite a major, international artist from the popular music world, who is no longer touring, to personally attend a Musical Tribute to his musical contributions over decades. Our Festival Choir will perform a program together with major, international vocal artists. His music has been specially arranged for solo, chorus and band.
We will invite musicians from major symphonic orchestras all over the world to become the core of a Festival Orchestra playing together with young talents from many countries. Led by a legendary Maestro.
When great Masters make music by playing together with young talents, performance pressure is gone and the spirit of and the breathing with the music is instilled.
We will invite choral singers from many nations to work with an outstanding choral conductor.
We will invite our audience to follow and listen to open rehearsals thus getting intimate with the music later performed in concerts.
We will invite a few school orchestras, choirs or other ensembles from schools in countries world-wide. We’ll ask our guest schools to demonstrate their daily school work in real time music lessons and rehearsals with students and music teachers. We will ask class-room teachers and school leaders to reflect upon how music affects studies and school environment. They will show short film documentaries filmed at their schools by Festival & Forum 21. A model that was presented by Festival & Forum 21 at the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 21, 2016 with five schools from five countries.
The very first year of the festival we hope to be able to present our first pilot communities/mini-worlds that will engage in developing music programs including all children in all their schools.
In future festivals our pilot communities will be given opportunities to report how the study is progressing in their respective community with the assistance of involved Scientists.
Our festival will in the future possibly become a “display window” for our pilot communities where they will be able to present their community and the progress of the Study in various ways.
We will invite leading Scientists from worlds like Pedagogy, Psychology, Medicine, Criminology and Economy along with key personalities from Cultural and Educational Worlds. We’ll ask them to lecture, debate and plan strategies how to reach decision makers with convincing arguments and proofs that Music and all Art forms can affect brains and hearts and become cornerstones in building a better world!
Demonstrate how the Arts + Children = the Best Investment there is! With our efforts, that we hope will involve many, we want to present a perspective that investing in the Arts involving many children, is by far a better investment than any other effort there is!
Read my personal letter here and reflect upon the question: Can the Arts transform a Society in decline?
Göran Staxäng Director, Festival & Forum 21