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are large, clearly identifiable and drawn mostly in red, blue, yellow, brown and
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green colours.

The impact of the show
The evidence of lasting impressions from the performance was clear because
the drawings were made one or even two weeks after attending the show. To re-
member the experience so thoroughly the child must be relaxed and attentive
during the performance. If not, the details would be forgotten. The main cri-
teria for seeing the impact of the show in the drawings was the presence of ele-
ments that were not present (the character from the poem), the details of the
concert hall, and the clearly expressed characters and storyline.

Analysis of children’s answers to open questions in the questionnaire
(filled in at school approximately one week after attending the opera).

Table 2
Children’s answers to the questionnaire

What did you like ‘singing’, ‘when Mojca sang’ (45),
best? ‘the scene’, ‘when the snow started to fall’, ‘when the stage spins’ (8)
What you disliked, ‘people chatting’, ‘someone taking photos’, ‘rude people sitting in front
did something of me’ (33),
bother you? ‘sometimes the orchestra was louder than the soloists', 'I didn’t like Ke-
kec's high voice', 'I didn’t like Bedanec's singing', 'bad microphone', 'hard
seats', 'lights from behind', 'murmuring', 'that the text was forgotten’ (17)
‘when Bedanec was bullying people’, ‘when the Kekec was fooling
Rožle’(3)
Who sang the most ‘Mojca's song, which was chosen as the most beautiful by most of the
beautifully? children’ (46), and ‘Kekec’ (44)
Which song did you ‘Mojca’s sad song about her blindness’, all of the songs’, ‘the first song of
like best? the night watch’, ‘Bedanec’s song’,
‘choir of the villagers, children’s choir’,
‘Kekec’s song about Pehta and the bee’

The children were impressed by the singing and the story, as most of them
(57%) who answered the question: ‘ What did you like best?’ spontaneously
mention that they liked the singing the most (‘that they sang’, ‘singing’, ‘when
Mojca sang’); 58% of them mention the characters or scenes from the story
(‘when Kekec saved Mojca’, ‘when Rožle scared Kekec’); a few children (10%)
also mention the scenery (‘the scene’, ‘when the snow started to fall’, ‘when the
stage spins’).
Of all the musical elements, the one that spoke to them the most was
Mojca’s song, which was chosen as the most beautiful by most of the children
(59%), and the song of Kekec (57%), but the fact that the boy who sang the role

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