The Monterisi Orchestra, made up of 90 students, in front of the commission made up of well-known musicians, including Maestro Simone Genuini, director of the youth orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome, and Maestro Piero d’Egidio, director of the Pergolesi conservatory of Fermo, played some pieces taken from the classical repertoire, soundtracks, and original pieces such as Carmina Burana, Queen Concert, Pirates of the Caribbean, Astortango and Valzerr8, transcribed, arranged and composed by the profs. Domenico Bruno and Vincenzo Mastropirro.
At the end of the performance, the orchestra of Monterisi children, all of 2nd and 3rd middle school students from courses G and H, attending the school year. 2023/24, received a very long round of applause from the audience and the commission, thrilling everyone present with the total involvement that only music can do, especially if the protagonists are 12/13 year olds. And it is with everyone’s infinite joy and satisfaction that the Monterisi Orchestra confirmed itself as one of the best youth teams of Italian school orchestras, once again achieving the First Prize of the Competition, in addition to the special jury prize for the best class of trumpet of the prof. Salvatore Barile. Thanks go to the director Prof. Lucia Scarcelli who, together with the professors Anna Maria Messina, Lucrezia Germinario and the tireless Licia, were part of the group of students and instrument teachers: Mauto Altamura, Salvatore Barile, Domenico Bruno, Antonio Cavallo, Antonio Cucumazzo, Giovanni Orsini, Vincenzo Mastropirro and Ilaria Casamassima.
«Well done to all our kids and applause goes to all the schools that participated in this splendid experience of Music-Together…W MUSIC IN PUBLIC SCHOOL.
This award is wholeheartedly dedicated to “our” professor Francesca Carabellese” comment the teachers
Below is an emotional writing by the literature professor Lucrezia Germinario
“Homeward…”
We are on the bus heading home: we have a long road ahead but our thoughts travel backwards.
Return there, on board the Grimaldi Lines Cruise-Rome, to the magic of the “Smaila” room, where between portholes that open like smiles on the open sea, of an indigo that smells of infinity and the swarming of the immature glances of our boys, the 2023/24 edition of the “Seamphony” music competition has taken shape.
It is on the wings of music that the students of SMS “R. Monterisi”, accompanied by the teachers of
instrument, Masters and Mentors, make their dreams soar and vibrate high, using the language of music, which shortens distances, enhances differences and passes through the soul.
For a handful of days, from 11 to 14 May, that ferryboat becomes the “Garden without the
night” by Montaner, thanks to the alchemy of the music of our kids, who there meet others with their
backpacks full of dreams, stories and hopes…just like them.
And once again it is the school that takes care of this garden, planting and disseminating seeds of beauty everywhere, even through the folk alleys of Barcelona, with its visionary views, among the colors of Casa Batlò, where anyone who places their The eye can still hear Gaudi’s heart beating and the timeless synesthesia of the Palau de la Musica.
Our boys, as often happens and not by chance, came first. But the most coveted position always remains that of the people who will be able to become in life, thanks also to the demiurgic power of music.
