Ingenuity shines through for Catholic music class Michael Paglia’s Grade 11 class at All Saints Catholic Secondary School in Whitby, Ont., was honoured for digital ingenuity at CBC Music and MusiCounts’ 2020 Canadian Music Challenge. Photo courtesy Michael Paglia January 6, 2021
In a year when everything was virtually, uhhhh, virtual, Michael Paglia and his music students at All Saints Catholic Secondary School in Whity, Ont., were honoured for their contribution to this virtual reality.
Paglia and the 15 Grade 11 students took the CBC Music and MusiCounts 2020 Canadian Music Challenge competition’s new Top Virtual Video award for their performance of a vocal-instrumental hybrid of “Hand in My Pocket,” a centrepiece tune on the influential Alanis Morissette album
Category 2: Primary Vocal (kindergarten to Grade 3)
First prize ($3,000 in new musical instruments and a plaque): Like a Flower to the Sun / Hold On / We re all in This Together, McKenzie Elementary Junior Choir, Victoria. Music teacher: Arlene Salido.
Judge s comment: Great, tuneful singing in this imaginative and safely distanced performance! - CBC Music staff
Second prize (plaque): Seed In The Ground , St. Michael s University School (Grade 2), Victoria. Watch their video.
Third prize (plaque): Seed In The Ground , Westminster Public School, Brockville, Ont. Watch their video.
Category 3: Elementary Instrumental (Grades 4-6)
First prize ($3,000 in new musical instruments and a plaque): Crabbuckit , Suzuki Charter School, Edmonton. Music teacher: Tim Eckert.