Help Choose Songs for Bronx Kids Choir

Subject: Folklore: Help Choose Songs for Bronx Kids Choir
From: GUEST,sbm
Date: 05 Mar 06 - 07:31 PM

I am trying to choose a good variety of sings to use with a Bronx Public School this year. I'm thinking of songs from around the world, i.e. Tshothsolosa, De Colores...but am pretty flexible. Might even do some Beach Boys. I'd love suggestions on songs that people have tried with kids choirs before. They're 4-6 graders.
Thanks!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Help Choose Songs for Bronx Kids Choir
From: Amos
Date: 05 Mar 06 - 07:53 PM

Oh, Shenandoah is always beautiful. Happens to be on my mind at the moment.

If they're good enough, some Elizabeth: Matona, Lovely Maiden, or the one whose name I forget that is an ode to sleep (Come, close my eyes; tired of beholding vanity...). Or, for that matter, Down by the Salley Gardens.

There are plenty of youth's French songs that will serve -- A La Claire Fontaine, trimmed down to a few verses, might be lovely.

If you want to raise a stir, teach them to sing "With Your Drums and Guns..." (Johnny, I hardly knew ye) or "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream".

A

Subject: RE: Folklore: Help Choose Songs for Bronx Kids Ch
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 12:14 PM

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream is a great suggestion. That song moved me, even as a kid. Anyone else? The more ideas the better...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Help Choose Songs for Bronx Kids Choir
From: Flash Company
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 04:40 AM

Sidewalks of New York?

FC