Bologna città della musica
The Musical bodies and associations of Bologna

• -> the musical bodies and associations of bologna
• -> competitions
• -> festivals
• -> cultural associations and centres
• -> seasons
• -> clubs with musical events
• -> schools and training centres

Music Together Association
This cultural Association, created as an educational project of the “Center for Music and Young Children at Princeton” (NJ – USA) in 1987, has spread in the whole world [Austria, Bermuda, Canada, China, South-Korea, France, Germany, Great Britain, Haiti, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland]. In Italy, “Music Together” has premises only in Bologna.
The main activity of the Association is the organisation of courses of musical education for children from 0 to 5 years of age, with the accompaniment and the active participation of the parents, to promote the “making of music in the family”.
During the courses, the children learn a variety of traditional songs coming from the whole world, from Korea to Russia, from the traditional songs of American Indians to medieval music. The selection of music is carried out with the didactic purpose of training the child’s ear not only to the sonorities of its own culture, but also to other ones from all over the world and from various historic periods. The Association, that has also laboratories for the making of musical instruments, works in collaboration with city nursery schools, children's recreation centres and libraries, through the organisation of meetings of musicality training.

Pocart Music Centre
The objective of the Association is the socialisation among people of different cultures, through the valorisation of diversity. Pocart organises, in collaboration with the City Council of Bologna – which finances 35% of the activities – music training courses (drums, singing, bass, guitar), laboratories of animated narrations and musical playing activities for small children (from 0 to 6 years of age). The structure offers also rehearsal rooms and recording studios, organises free-entrance cinematographic festivals and events with a view to social issues. In 2005 various events have taken place: There is no future without memory, an event organised on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April 1945; Solidò, a promotion campaign in favour of Emergency1; a competition dedicated to the bands of junior secondary and secondary schools of the city; the Inkwell Project for the creation and production of audio material for young handicapped people, and projects of multicultural integration aiming at favouring integration of younger children, like learning paths in Arab for children from Morocco as well as graphic and musical laboratories. For 2006 the programme offers DJ courses, theatre and musical seminars and production activities for emerging bands.

The Bernstein Musical School (BSMT)
The school was founded in 1993 and is the only school in Italy that promotes a “learned” kind of musicals and one of the few national structures that provide a complete and interdisciplinary training in the field of show business, including singing, acting and dancing – according to the British model of "triple threat performer", that is a three-dimensional artist. The school has promoted, since 2000, a festival dedicated to works by Stephen Sondheim. Many of its graduates have worked in productions of international relevance – such as "Evita", "Grease", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Cats", "Les Misérables", "No, No, Nanette", "Jekyll & Hyde”, "Rent", "The Betrothed", “Saturday Night Fever", "Tosca", "Chicago".
The school organises stages and master classes in collaboration with twinned institutes in England, Denmark and, starting in 2006, in China. Among the activities in programme, the adaptation in Italian of English and American lyrics and the production of two musicals: “Nine”, from the film “8 1/2” by Federico Fellini, in collaboration with the Italian community of Toronto (Canada), and “Caruso”, an original work of a young Italian author.

Mousikè – Educational projects
Mousikè is an educational project addressed especially to those who teach and use dancing, music and creative movement in schools and, more in general, to those who deal with the artistic training of children and young people. The main activities consist, in fact, in training and refresher courses for teachers, in the carrying out of laboratories in state and private schools (in 2005/2006 there are more than 1800 meetings in programme that will involve 4000 students), in the organisation of conferences and in publishing activities, with reference to theoretical and methodological texts, small manuals, didactic and musical resources of various kinds.
Mousiké collaborates moreover with the Music and Show Department of the University of Bologna for the organisation of training courses and conferences. Lastly, it has signed an agreement with the Teatro Comunale for the carrying out of laboratory activities and meetings promoted in the context of training initiatives for the public.

The Liszt Institute
In April 1997 the Liszt Institute was founded in Bologna, in collaboration with the publishing company Ricordi, the Cultural Association Italy-Austria, the Italian-French Cultural Association “Alliance Française”, the Cultural Association Italy-Hungary and the Institute of Germanic Culture, associations that represent the four countries where Liszt lived and whose culture influenced his artistic formation.
The main objective of the Institute is to promote a better knowledge of Liszt’s work both in the field of musicological research and of interpretation through the gathering of material: up to now more than 2.500 titles between books and articles and about 1.000 scores have been gathered (there are also some first printed editions of Liszt’s works).
n order to promote musicological research, the Institute publishes the Notebooks of the Liszt Institute, a collection of articles in various languages concerning the work and life of the great Hungarian author; the series “Lisztian Rarities”, scores that offer performers and experts the possibility of studying pieces that are not available in corrected modern editions, or new findings of unknown works or works that had been thought lost. The “Liszt Award”, moreover, enriches the publishing activity, every two years. It is a musicological competition that gives a prize to the best research on the composer. Besides, the Institute offers pianists the possibility of playing an original instrument of Liszt and organises concert seasons with the formula of the 19th century Musical Salon and of the Concert-Conference. The programmes of the season tend to analyse in depth not only the lisztian production, but also the production of contemporary figures, with interpretations of works that are often neglected in the traditional concert repertoire and from somewhat innovative perspectives.