Send Your School Orchestra Or Choir On An Unforgettable Trip
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 @ 12:13 PM
Educational trips are a great way to see new places and learn in new environments. School trips can be an essential part of the educational experience. If you sing in a choir, or are part of a school band or orchestra, there are some amazing music based trips that could send you almost anywhere.
Education Through Music
Whilst sports based or activity based school trips are quite a normal thing, trips based around a musical tour are rather new. If you are part of a school or college band, choir or orchestra, there are trips available that could see you perform in live venues whilst also learning and exploring the local musical history and culture. Depending on your musical style and your destination, you could be performing in regal churches or in lively music festivals. Wherever you choose, you will build your confidence as you get real practice in front of a genuine audience. Take your school band on a real music tour and learn as you perform.
Why Not Try New Orleans?
Explore the Cajun culture in charismatic New Orleans. Choirs will find themselves singing in beautiful churches or overlooking the banks of the Mississippi, whilst school bands could end up playing at the Music Legends Park in the famous French Quarter. When you are not performing take a New Orleans Ghost Tour in "America's Most Haunted City" and take the Roots Of Jazz tour to learn about the masters who paved the way.
What About A Trip To France?
Stay in Paris and explore one of the world's culture and fashion capitals. Paris has a number of amazing parks with auditoriums for choir and orchestral performances and its churches are some of the most famed in the world. Arrange for your school to sing in beautiful historic surroundings such as Notre Dame or La Madeleine. For a slightly different musical education experience, you can even join the musical performers at Disneyland Paris for the day.
Prague Might Be Just Perfect
For orchestras in particular, Prague might have the most spectacular location you could find. Home to the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, stunning Dvorrk Hall is about the grandest venue you will ever find. Larger choirs or school orchestras would be able to put on a real once in a lifetime performance in a space of this magnitude. If your designs are not quite so grand, Prague is home to many more amazing venues and halls for performances of all kinds.
Educate And Entertain
If your students or kids are excelling at music it is a wonderful talent to be able to encourage. Educational school trips to somewhere exciting with the added bonus of putting on proper performances in front of real crowds could be an amazing opportunity for growth. Getting to learn the theory and the history of music is great, but really it is in the actual playing, singing and creating that people lose themselves. By combining a real musical tour with stops at museums and places of historical interest, you get both the fun and the facts.
AUTHOR BIO
Rob Gibson writes for a number of blogs on educational travel, as well as both online and print travel magazines. To get more information on educational school trips visit this page regularly for more updates.