Current Assignment(s)Students should be working on the Remote Learning Assignment for the week of April 27 (due Monday, 5/4). Details can be found in Google Classroom. | UpdatesClick here for parent information about the current Remote Learning Assignment (sent 4/27/2020) |
Virtual Choir Update
Thank you to everyone who sent videos for the Virtual Choir! It is almost ready to share! I am finishing a few last details and will send you a link to the Virtual Vertical Concert in the next few days. This screenshot from the video of "My Very Own" will give you a little preview of what a 48-person Virtual Choir looks like:
Weekly Feature: Musical Records
This week we highlight a different category of random musical records each day - staring with "The Largest ...."
The largest triangle ensemble consists of 1,521 people, and was achieved by students of The Music Man Project at an event organized by David Stanley in London, United Kingdom, on October 15, 2017.
 | The largest music lesson involved 2,869 participants learning how to play the ukulele, and was achieved in Malaysia on May 15, 2019. Students aged 7-12 took part in this music lesson lasting 33 minutes 3.4 seconds. |
Each student had their own ukulele and watched the single instructor, Ric Cho, on stage or from one of the 5 screens set up streaming live around the venue. Ric taught them how to hold the instrument, a few strumming techniques and finished with a splendid rendition of "Baby Shark," with all participants playing along.
| On August 5, 1989, the largest game of musical chairs began with 8,238 participants at the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore. Three and a half hours later, the game ended with the lucky 15-year-old winner Xu Chong Wei on the last precious chair. |  |
And finally, the largest human image of a musical instrument was formed by 1,660 people creating the shape of a saxophone in the Promenade du Paillon in Nice, France, on 21 June 2014.
Recommended Resource: The Met Opera
Branch out this week and try watching an opera! The world renowned Metropolitan Opera has announced plans to stream some of its famous operas to online audiences with Nightly Met Opera Streams, recordings of previous performances all pulled from its Live in HD series. You can find the performances on the homepage of metopera.org at 7:30pm each evening, where they’ll be available to stream for 20 hours once posted, free of charge. Click here for a full schedule and to learn more about each opera.
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