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Visualization
Additional pre-recorded video clips of the plot of the story and presentation of 
images and photographs documenting the actual site of such production (e.g.
pho-
tographs of renowned opera houses, decorations of the famous theater and opera 
performances), assembled in a simple and user-demanding commercial applications 
(Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Zoner, Adobe Premiere, Windows 
Movie Maker, etc.) are an indispensable part of the public production of educatio-
nal concerts conductor Machek, since these can and do make similar actions matter 
accessible to a broad spectrum of listeners, the smallest children from preschool age 
through students from fi rst to second grade of elementary schools and ending with an 
audience from among their parents.
Projectors and equipment needed for the production of visual (right software for 
playing video and presentation fi les, laptop, or at least the basic categories of ligh-
ting equipment and audio-visual reproduction techniques) are now an integral part 
of every major equipment production agency, organizing educational concerts, and 
if not (eg in the case of touring performances) through its development of the ongo-
ing miniaturization and mobility are easily accessible and able to transport with the 
common ways of transport.
Through my years of work in the creation and interpretation of educational con-
certs with the conductor Miloš Machek, I was convinced that the educational con-
certs for preschool children and children of all grades of primary schools can be (also 

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thanks to the support of multimedia applications previously mentioned) produced and 
presented a different, more funny way, and can be much more interactive between 
the stage and audience, between performer and the listener than that way to which 
we have been used to and in some cases, unfortunately, we still often are used. They 
become the cultural affairs acceptable and accessible to a wide range of listeners 
from among students of fi rst and second grades of primary schools and the interaction 
between performers and listeners are trying to be competitive for a young audience in 
a duel with the current television production, computer applications, and issues of its 
convenient availability and simplicity of today are often dangerous and increasingly 
widespread attraction of young people and school children in particular.
Summary
The paper introduces, describes and deals with the multimedia applications use in the 
creation and presentation of educational concerts for the elementary school pupils of 
3
rd
up to 9
th
degrees. It presents all the details associated with the educational con-
cert production, beginning with the score and musical parts preparation, through the 
light and screen engineering and artifi cial content of the whole musical performance. 
There is also mentioned an elementary hardware and software equipment used to 
the score and musical parts preparation (ie. Sibelius or Finale) and useful recording 
software (ie. Steinberg Cubase, Nuendo or ProTools).

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