Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Fullerton College Concert Choir will attend the year end party at the Liszt School of Music on Monday, July 4th

The Fullerton College Concert Choir will have an exchange with local students of the "Department of School Music and Church Music" of the "Liszt School of Music" in Weimar on Monday, July 4th.
The students will celebrate the end of the semester and will have a party with live music and entertainment and are inviting the Fullerton College Concert Choir to celebrate with them. About the Liszt School of Music: It was Franz Liszt who first had the idea to establish a school of music in Weimar: already in 1835 he had thoughts about the establishment of "progress schools of music". Highly-qualified instrumentalists had to be sought after, in order to make the orchestras efficient enough for the new music of their time. For a long time Liszt fought to establish a training centre for orchestral musicians in Weimar, but it was first in 1872 that Liszt's pupil Carl Muellerhartung realised this dream and established the first orchestral school in Germany. Training on all orchestral instruments, the piano and conducting were available and extra areas were soon added such as: voice, opera and theatre, composition, teacher training for instrumental and voice teachers as well as the expected training of genuine virtuosos. Therefore the training centre was first called "Orchestra School", then "School of Music and Orchestra", later "Orchestras-, Music and Opera School" and finally "Music-, Opera and Theatre School". In 1947 the theatrical department closed again (although the opera school remained). In 1948 musicology was recognised as a viable academic subject and was integrated into the mandatory academic fields - the curriculum as we know it today was thereby complete. Since 1956 the school bears the name of its initiator.

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