by: Sue Walker
Music is a
universal language. It is present in us all.
It crosses boundaries, borders, impairments and generations and on
Tuesday 4th September in the Esk State School Music Room, Alexis FitzGerald and
her Esk Community Choir along with Adam Smith's Senior School Choir represented
some of those generations inspired by music.
Children as
young as five years old, part of the singing group, the "Semitones",
opened the afternoon's proceedings with a heartfelt rendition of the National
Anthem and everyone present could not help but be impressed with nine year old
Aydan Forsyth's fabulous rendition of the lovely old Australian song "Ten
Thousand Miles Away".
Alexis then
proceeded, with the help of some physical aids, to explain to the children what
it means to be “a choir ". It was
with a certain degree of relief amongst the "oldies” that most of the
questions were capably dealt with by the kids!! The generations combined to very capably
perform a couple of three part rounds which raised the roof with some truly
mellifluous harmonies. Then the Esk
Community Choir presented the kids with a new twist on "Old MacDonald Had
a Farm" and appropriately completed the hour with their stirring rendition
of “We Are a Choir".
It is from these wonderful learning opportunities and reinforcements that children carry their love of music into adulthood, the physical and mental benefits of which speak for themselves. You only have to come to Choir practice at St Agnes's Hall at 7pm on any Tuesday night to see that I am right!!
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