One of the artistic schools of the Zaragoza City Council With greater tradition in the city, the Municipal School of Music and Dance, turns 30 and will celebrate it offering its talent to the attendees to a course closing show that, at the same time, will commemorate this event.
This Wednesday, June 18, the members of the three departments of the school will deploy on the stage of the Mozart room of the Auditorium of Zaragoza Princesa Leonor a heterogeneous show in styles and rhythms, combining modern and classical music, in addition to the rooted folklore that is also taught in this school.
At 7:00 p.m., the recital of which more than 200 students of all ages to which the public can attend by buying their locations through the sales channel of the auditorium will be part of the auditorium. For more than an hour and a quarter, they await sound surprises to the spectators, who will be able to make a auditory trip for traditional percussion, mixtures of different themes of Symphonic Abba with the school orchestra, modern music in acoustic format, mixture of students to interpret pop songs or the participation of the Big Band of the EMMD.
A change story
The current model as a public education center had its origin in 1988, when the rock workshop was created in collaboration with the Popular University and developing its activities in the Civic Center Delicias La Rotonda, which ended up deriving in the Department of Modern Music, which in 2001 was extended to weapons. On the other hand, the Jota School operated in the Palafox barracks, with around 700 students, which later became the department of folklore.
Following these learning centers, to which all -the -art music teachers of the schools were added, dependent on the City of Zaragoza, a music school was created officially, with the obligation to contain the activity of music and movement, instrumental practice, and musical language, the project is shaped, adding specialties considered fundamental in the case of folklore, such as bagpipe, traditional percussion and dulzaina. In 1994, the Creation Agreement of the Municipal School of Music and Dance of Zaragoza was signed with the then Ministry of Education and Science.
One of its referents is the Palafox project on the scene, which had its culminating point in its exhibition as an example of good practices in the XVI International Congress of Educational Cities 2022, in South Korea, within the thematic axis “Traditions and identity: learning from the past”, extolling artistic teachings as educational transmitters of local traditions, history and cultural heritage.
Throughout these decades, this teaching center has participated in the cultural life of the city carrying the music, dance and dance to the street, to the neighborhoods, the schools, the civic centers, the residences and the great stages of the city. In it, the Consistory has formed musicians and dancers but, above all, we have trained people in the values of effort, equality, equity, work, solidarity and friendship. Zaragoza is more city with his school, richer, more diverse and more committed.
