To
\ncelebrate the winter holidays, the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum in
\nBucharest has re-opened the series of educational workshops titled The Elves’ Village.
\nWe are already familiar with workshops, where people get together to make
\nmasks, puppets or dolls in folk costumes or Christmas decorations, but this
\nyear a group of talented musicians have won us over with a Caroling Workshop.
\nThe initiators of the workshop unveil the magic of musical instruments to all
\nthose curious to decipher the beauty of sounds and extend all visitors an
\ninvitation to sing along in a choir set up on the spot. Marius Ni\u0163u, who plays
\nthe violin in the project, told us more:<\/p>\n
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It was S\u00e2nziana who had the idea and
\nsuggested to us to make a caroling workshop, to present something different to
\nthe people, to come up with something new. We’ve thought it would be a good
\nidea to involve all the children, everyone in the museum, for each of them to
\nfeel what’s like to contribute to the fair. We wanted something different from
\nthe ‘we sing, they listen’ kind of events. We’ve noticed that children liked it
\na lot. This has been our first project, our first Christmas workshop, and it’s
\nbeen a success. And we intend to continue and organize similar workshops in the
\nfuture. <\/p>\n
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S\u00e2nziana
\nMircea, pianist and president of the Music Art Academy, the association which
\nbrings together the artists who organized the event, has told us:<\/p>\n
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We’ve had the immense joy to be here and
\norganize a caroling workshop, we sang together with all the children in the
\nroom, we set up a choir on the spot, we performed Romanian and international
\ncarols together. Also, I played the piano, the guitar and the violin. I also
\nsang and took part in a beautiful children’s choir, created on the spot. We’ve
\nchosen to set up a caroling workshop because going caroling is one of the most
\nbeautiful Christmas traditions, because music unites us all even though we
\ndon’t know each other. The children befriended each other; they have all
\nstepped out in front of the group to sing. It was another opportunity to see
\nthat music is a universal language and carols have a special way of making us
\nready for Christmas. <\/p>\n
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Amalia
\nLazarciuc delighted us with her voice, and then told us how artists prepared
\nfor the workshop.<\/p>\n
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We have prepared the lyrics, we got the melody line ready, we also prepared a microphone,
\nand there were moments when the choir was accompanied by my colleagues on the piano,
\nby S\u00e2nziana, Marius on the violin and Raisa on the guitar. <\/p>\n
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And the
\nenthusiasm they put in, that brought artists loads of joy. Speaking about that,
\nhere is Amalia Lazarciuc once again. <\/p>\n
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It is a wonderful feeling, all the
\nmore so as this moment was spontaneous. We didn’t expect so many children to come
\ncaroling. And these are the moments you feel wonderful, moments you don’t plan
\nahead, they simply happen, especially at this time of the year, which is very
\nbeautiful. <\/p>\n
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We
\nasked Raisa Mihai, who played the violin, where they got this idea of a caroling
\nworkshop.<\/p>\n
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We wanted to make people happy and enjoy
\nthe tradition of Christmas. We prepared some carols together with these
\nchildren who have been here today and whose reaction was awesome! I did not
\nexpect them to react the way they did, they were delighted and joined us
\nstraight away. They were a bit bashful at first, but after that, everyone joined
\nin. <\/p>\n
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And
\nhere is what violinist Marius Nitu added to that. <\/p>\n
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At this time of the year, the tradition
\nof Christmas cannot go without carols, just as my colleagues have said, music
\nbrings people together and I believe that in this boisterous world carols help
\nsoothe our spirit so that together we may be better and calmer.<\/p>\n
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Taking
\npart in the workshop were lots of children, of various ages. 15-year old
\nNectaria Iorgulescu told us why she joined the carols Workshop.<\/p>\n
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I found an opportunity to listen to good
\nmusic, on a beautiful winter day!<\/p>\n
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And
\nhere is what 12-year old Andrei Cristian Iacobescu joyfully told us.<\/p>\n
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I liked it here, I wanted to see how it
\nwas like and when I saw there were very many people, I braced up and joined in
\nmyself! It was like doing a karaoke!<\/p>\n
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Seven-year
\nold Serban Ioan Andrei was brimming with joy.<\/p>\n
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I liked it! I learned many songs and it was beautiful!<\/p>\n
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Grown-ups
\nand kids alike joined in a genuine music celebration.<\/p>\n
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