The innovative educational activity of creating a CD entitled "The Journey" in children's poems set to music by Antonis Samarakis, gives children the possibility of multiple participations through which they will learn how to create music, record, perform and produce from an artistic creation to material CD audio player. It is an exciting journey into the world of art, culture and technology.
Through these original actions, the thinking, judgement, observation and skills of young children are cultivated, while at the same time their cognitive circle is expanded. Music soothes, calms, pleases. It develops the creative mood, imagination and ingenuity of preschool children, who through the various musical games, singing, dancing, listening to music, orchestrating different songs, recognizing sounds, practice not only mental , their emotional and mental development, but also their knowledge. They thus develop elements of their personality which then help them develop into mature and cultured individuals.
Antonis Samarakis, who wrote these poems when he was a teenager and lived next to the Chalandriou Youth Center, they were set to music by the composer Giorgos Voukanos, structured for Orchestra, Children's Choir, Soloists and Narrators, with artistic orchestrations. Some of these songs were presented for the first time in 2007 at the Athens Concert Hall by Vassilis Lekkas while they were recorded for the first time and will be presented with the cooperation of the Municipality of Ellinikos-Argyroupolis with the aim of involving the kindergartens in this production as well as its Choir Municipal Conservatory of Argyroupoli "Georgios Michalakeas".
The creation of the CD was presented at an event that took place in the conference room of our Municipality "Mikis Theodorakis". The Children's Choir of the "Georgios Michalakeas" Municipal Conservatory participated in the event, as well as the children (pre-nursery class) of the Kindergartens of the Municipality of Hellinikon-Argyroupoli.