National Singing Ambassador, Howard Goodall, travelled to three schools in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province to find out what part singing plays in children's lives at school.
He discovered that singing is a vital part of school life and even where there are scant resources and few specialist teachers there is still a healthy musical culture in the classroom, with music helping students to learn languages and talk about social issues. There are also some interesting observations about boys' enthusiasm for singing and the importance (or otherwise) of tuning when it comes to young singers.
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This News story was originally published by Music Manifesto, the campaign to improve music education 2004 – 2010.
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Dad Lynch Report this comment
Posted 28th May 2011 03:46
yes good idea