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"With this series of concerts,
I understood once more the power of music
and how a well-played work can change
the people’s eyes in fractures of a second."
Michalis Sionas, actor/director/composer

The T.S.S.O. educational project “The Carnival of the Animals and other stories” end up in a full Ceremony Hall of the Aristotle University, with a concert for the whole family. The orchestra was conducted by Dimosthenis Fotiadis, who was also in charge of creating the concert’s program, while Michalis Sionas, with his texts and narrations, helped young and older friends to understand the way that a symphony orchestra works, giving interesting information about the concert’s program and the classical music in general.
 
Before the end of the concert, Michalis Sionas borrowed the maestro’s baton for a while and he conducted the audience, in a beautiful moment that everybody enjoyed. The night was concluded with the audience and the orchestra dancing to the rhythm of a jubilant can-can.

Dimosthenis Fotiadis said after the end of the night: “I would like to state that it was a very special production with 7 performances at the rehearsal hall of T.S.S.O. and 2 at the Ceremony Hall of A.U.TH. with full halls and great enthusiasm from all the children, the teachers and the parents. Unique feelings for us as well, particularly during the concerts at the A.U.TH., where the audience not only enjoyed themselves, but rather had a blast I might say, from the very young ones, the kindergarteners, to the middle-schoolers. It was a remarkable experience. We are all overjoyed. I would like to thank all the teachers, parents and pupils that attended, as well as T.S.S.O. and all my colleague musicians for this magical week we had.”   

Michalis Sionas, whose participation took place with the cooperation of the N.T.N.G., stated: “If music comes from the body and speaks to the body, then a child is rather ready for this interaction at any moment. Most of the times, when we try to teach ‘something’ to the children through the music, we take away from them the chance to discover this ‘something’ by themselves. With this series of concerts, I saw how the game of the music can help people communicate immediately, without any need for explanations, conventions, and I understood once more the power of music and how a well-played work can change the people’s eyes in fractures of a second. The children are possibly so open to this experience, that the music doesn’t require having any special meaning for them and in the same time never lacks it.”