Mobile County's Elementary Honor Chorus is learning more than just music!
YOU'RE INVITED TO THE MOBILE COUNTY ELEMENTARY HONOR CHORUS SPRING SHOW!IT'S TUESDAY NIGHT (MARCH 24, 2009) AT 7 PM AT THE DAVIDISON HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM ON AZALEA ROAD.No, it's NOT the same old song and dance... although there is dancing...
and singing...
I'm here at Old Shell Elementary, where about 10 students are working on a performance that's happening next Tuesday that you don't want to miss! And it's not just them. 180 students just like them will be performing to show you their best, in what's called The Honor Chorus.They're the best of the best from elementary schools all across Mobile County... from art classes that emphasis singing and dancing.
At Mary B Austin Elementary, a group of students are dancing with streamers... practicing for Tuesday's big Honor Chorus show, which their teacher says is a moment that could last a lifetime!
"If you don't remember anything about your elementary school years you remember...the music... and the performing," says music specialist Ann Kennedy. Kennedy also wants you to know these students used their own imagination to help choreograph this dance. That takes talent and creativity. And back over at Old Shell Elementary, another example of how these youngsters are putting their talent to the test.
<"We have to learn, like, Japanese!" says one.
"Japanese? You have to sing Japanese?"
"Japanese and German..." the say in unison.
"The German on is the hardest!," says another little girl.
Cathy Youngblood is the music specialist at Old Shell Road Elementary. She and all the other teachers look beyond the lyrics and dance steps to what these youngsters are really learning... confidence to excel in life!
"The music teachers in the county have already taught the special things to all of the students, so they'll come together on Tuesday and will rehearse, and will come back that night to do the program. We like the discipline the children learn, and it just gets our programs out there and it gives the children an opportunity to perform that they might not otherwise have."
Ms. Kennedy says it worked for her own two sons, now serving in the United State military.
"They never had any problem with self confidence, and getting a job," she says, "because they just had so many opportunities to perform."
No... not the same old song and dance at all. In Mobile, Here's Darwin, NBC 15 News.
