Toward the Live Concert: Mediation and Mediators in Early Childhood Music Education 

Authors

  • Dochy Lichtensztajn Levinsky College of Education, Tel AviV Author

Keywords:

live concert, mediation and mediators, performer and audience

Abstract

Using existing theories relating to mediation culture in early childhood music education, this paper explores a model of live music encounters for children ages four to six, the mediation process of preparation for live concerts, and the means of communication and mediation during the performance itself. The description of the model through an examination of the mediation and the mediators’ aims and functions in the preparation prior to the final concerts, is based on the cultures of learning/teaching the pre-concert instructional materials, and on the degree of communication with the musicians during the concert performance. 

Author Biography

  • Dochy Lichtensztajn, Levinsky College of Education, Tel AviV

    Dochy Lichtensztajn is a Musicologist (Ph.D. in Musicology. Tel Aviv Univ.) and Music Educator (Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv). Senior Lecturer at the Levinsky Faculty of Music Education in Western Music History, Jewish Cultural Heritage, Didactic and Methodology for Major Music Dept. in secondary schools, and supervisor  in teacher training at the M.Teach degree program. Founder of the Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble "Shiruli", a unique model of concerts for young audiences (1988-2000). From 2000 to 2014 she was nominate by the Levinsky Faculty of Music Education as the coordinator and pedagogical supervisor of the Community Programme "Live Music Encounters":  the Musica Viva  program for kindergarten and major music students in secondary schools, the innovative KeyNote program (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), the Kadma program (New Haifa Symphonic Orchestra), the Meitarim Program (Tel Aviv Soloist Orchestra), and the Alhan Program (Polyphony Foundation). In the framework of the KeyNote Program, Dochy is the staff leader of practitioners and facilitators for music community initiatives around the country. Since 2014 she is totally dedicated to the IPO Keynote Program as a pedagogical director. Commissioner member in the CMA International Society for Music Education (2008-2014). In the last years Dochy Lichtensztajn explored issues concerning the live concerts for young audiences and there social and cultural impact, besides dilemmas on politics of vision through dialogues in music education in a conflictual society. 

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Published

2024-02-04

Issue

Vol. 15 (2018)

Section

Articles