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Pupils recording the Song Cycle at St Francis, St Michael’s and Sprowston schools.
- Credit: Into Opera
Hundreds of children at six primary schools in Norwich are set to share a message in song about the coronavirus pandemic.
Pupils have been working with Into Opera and internationally renowned composer, Will Todd, to develop a major artistic song cycle that captures a slice of social history and encourages youngsters to share their thoughts and feelings about the impact of Covid-19.
Sprowston Junior Rehearsing the song Little Things outdoors.
- Credit: Into Opera
To follow coronavirus guidelines, schools transformed offices into mini-recording studios and even wheeling pianos into the playground to enable larger groups to sing and rehearse together.
gospel, moving into secular moving, into r & b and into soul, into pop, into opera, and throughout her life sort of bobbing and weaving between different types of music. yeah. you made a great point just a little bit earlier that she was the queen of so much more than soul. one of the greatest artists to prove that a voice that was steeped in black music traditions like gospel and soul could then go on to conquer the worlds of pop and even perform an operatic contest. i was actually a recording artist in 1980s. i was in a band signed to motown. even then we spent time dissecting the vocal ability and the performances of aretha franklin in her later hits like freeway of love and others. she had a way of taking apart a song and bringing power to it and knowing exactly when to sing the heck out of it and exactly