Inviting participants for the International Choir Music Contest held by Art Child International Organisation

The Art Child International, Paris has invited children between age group of 8 and 14 years to participate in the International Choir Music Contest to be held sometime in 2007. The theme of this contest is Peace and each work should reflect the national culture of participating groups. India will be represented in the International Contest by a Music Choir Group selected at national level. The rules and conditions for participating in this national level contest areas follows: - Contestants must - be a children’s group - compose a work of Peace that is original (lyrics and music) and representative of their national cultue For the purpose of this contest, “choir music” represents a song with lyrics, with or without accompanying music, polyphonic or not, and performed by a group of children. The children’s group must be involved in creating the world the lyrics of the song must be composed by the children, however, the music score can be jointly composed with adult supervision and any accompanying music can be composed by an audit. Performance of the work shall be by the children who composed the work; however, adults may accompany the group musically during the performance and record them. “Children’s group’’ refers to a group of at least 15 children singing together, not counting soloists. The work must represent the national culture of the participating groups, this factor is important to keep in mind while selecting the melody and instruments used to compose the work. Maximum song length should be 5 to 6 minutes. The schools interested to participate in the contest may give their details in the Proforma enclosed in a CD. The CDs may be submitted on or before June 25, 2006 to Dr. Sadhana Parashar, Education Officer, CBSE, Shiksha Sadan, 17 Rouse Avenue, Institutional Area, New Delhi-l10002. These will be then scrutinized and the selected schools will be informed accordingly to prepare the choir compositions in VCD/DVD and send it by October 30, 2006. Three of the selected groups will be asked to perform before the National Selection panel set up by the Ministry.