GREAT SUCCESS FOR “IL GRAN CONCERTO”
Fonte: www.rai.it

A little Beethoven on the podium who directs the live Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai in "La Marcia Turca." The notes of "Pictures at an exhibition" by Mussorgsky becoming a ballet interpreted by children. The music of "Cinderella" of Čajkovskij that animates and gives life to a prince and a princess, very young. A game, but not all.
It is "The Great Concert", the new program Raitre - led by Alexander Greek and signed by Raffaella Carrà and Sergio Japino with Loredana Lipperini and Catherine Manganelli - which aims to "bring" the best young people into classical music.
The program will mark the return of Rai Carrà (even before that Carramba Fortuna) and his pupil (Alessandro Greek), who returns after years iin video of absence to lead the thirteen episodes aired Sunday September 7 at 9:10.
Protagonists of the program - created last July at the Auditorium Rai "Arturo Toscanini" in Turin - the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, conducted for the occasion by his first violin Alessandro Milani, and more than 500 children from 5 years old that in each episode, interacting with musicians, live discovering the secrets of instruments and music scores. And the music player itself, with its great songs and concerts, opera and ballet offered by the "live" dall'Orchestra with the help of soloists and guests.
For Italy, a "first" absolute, with the objective to live in first person, the younger, the music: "The philosophy of the program - the authors explain - is that of 'music as entertainment', to introduce more young people a simple (but often forgotten) fact: the classical music, like that for the most young people know and love today was born with the primary purpose to engage, entertain, make life more beautiful for every day. "
Source: www.televisionando.it
The Great Concert in September by Raffaella Carrà on Rai Tre
Pending again in the early evening in front of the cameras that Carràmba luck from next September 17, the National Raffa launches Grand Concerto, weekly music program that will be broadcast on Rai Tre from September 7 to 9 every Sunday morning.
The new transmission also marks the welcome return of Alexander to the Greek leadership, after a period of hosting and participation in the second edition of the reality La Talpa along with his wife Beatrice Bocci.
The Grand Concert is the adaptation of a format that Spain continues to be a very successful 13 years. In a fun, it is proposed to bring the serious world of classical music to children from 5 years old, to whom the program is dedicated. A sort of back to the original educational function of public service broadcaster Rai.
The protagonist is especially the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai managed by its young first violin Alessandro Milani dall'Auditorium that Rai di Torino, for 13 episodes (the first was already registered), will have the responsibility to know the sweet sound of the notes and teach to read a score to hundreds of children. They also take in the scene stories at the heart of the songs played live dall'Orchestra course.
The project have strongly believed, and in addition to Carrà Japino, the director Longobardo Paola, Paolo Ruffini, Director of Raitre, Aldo Pilgrims, director of the Center for Production of Turin, and Mussi Bellini, head of programming for children Rai.
"It is a program dedicated to children - explained Raffaella Carrà enthusiastic during the press conference of presentation - but like it very well to adults. It combines culture and play. "
And we want to believe.






Games with music, choreography, children "leader", the "appearances" of the great composers of the past, the soundtracks from Star Wars a Fantasy, La Pantera Rosa to Superman: a live performance lived in first person from the hundreds of children who have crowded the Auditorium Rai "Arturo Toscanini" in Turin and those at home (an average of about 800 thousand viewers and a share of more than 7 percent). All this was "The Great Concert", the program that Raitre told to children - for thirteen episodes - the classical music, its secrets, its "magic", his ability to describe places and emotions. Major players in the program - signed by Raffaella Carrà and Sergio Japino and written by Catherine Manganelli and Loredana Lipperini - the conductor Alexander Greek el'Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, conducted his first violin Alessandro Milani. An entertaining journey through the music that transformed the Auditorium Rai in a great platform for games, dances and choreographies that have involved children, the conductor, the Orchestra, along with artists, opera singers and dancers. "The Great Concert ends with a positive" - says the director of Raitre Paolo Ruffini - "and has won a bet, not only in terms of audience. The program has involved all kinds of authors, the network, the center of production of RAI Turin, over to Symphony of Rai: a team that has shown that classical music can be fun and exciting, and truly affordable for all . There is to be hoped that the adventure does not end here. "