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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 program was founded by musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 and conductor Nir Brand
Nir Brand
-Early life:Brand studied piano and double bass while growing up in Beer Sheva. His first big break came at the age of 17 when Chick Corea invited him to join Chick on stage at the Jerusalem International Convention Center at the piano. Nir wowed the audience, critics and Mr. Corea himself...

 in 2000, in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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About the program

The program is a series of lecture workshops and performances held in schools, and designed to bring music to children in order to enrich their cultural experience. Brand, along with other musicians, thought that by combining information and actual musical performances in class, performed by live
Live Music
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 orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

 musicians, students will find it attractive and engaging to know more and to learn how to enjoy classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

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The topics and the instructors

There are 15 various topics and each one is about a different musical instrument
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the...

. The program's instructors are all well trained performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

teachers and artists, combining their skills with the musicians chosen to play the particular pieces, selected for every topic.

In 2007, 7 years after its foundation, over 100,000 students in Israel went through the program.
The program is designed to travel and be taught in any school around the world.

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