If only all music teachers were are compassionate and open-minded as Jonny Trunk. Collecting a vast array of music recorded in schools, from classic folk songs to haiku-based teaching experiments between 1959 and 1977, Classroom Projects: Incredible Music Made By Children in Schools is a homage to Britain’s great tradition of pedagogic eccentricity before the stifling introduction of the National Curriculum.
Dovetailing with American equivalents like the Harlem Children’s Chorus and Pastor T.L Barrett and the youth for Christ Choir’s Like a Ship Without a Sale reissued by Light In The Attic in 2010, Classroom Projects takes a more esoteric cross-section of Britain’s more adventurous music rooms, and features several tracks from…
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…John Paynter and Peter Aston’s Sounds and Silence LP, originally intended as guides to creative composition in the classroom with child-friendly titles like “Musique Concrete”, “The Lyke-Wake Dirge” and “An Aleatory Game”.
It’s hard to know quite where to start with standout tracks with this one, the stories behind each being steeped with nostalgia and local charm, but in the words of Trunk himself it is “the naïve and boundless enthusiasm” of the likes of The Nick Nack Kids – a group of London-based primary school children brought together to sing on Malcolm Arnold’s classic 1958 score to The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness – that set these recordings apart from the interminable horror of the end of term flute recital.
01. Intro By Robert Gittings
02. Portland Town – Folk Group (Chelmsford County High School)
03. Examples of 12 note melodies – Heslington Primary School
04. Music for Cymbals – Sounds and Silence
05. Puppets – Piece for Solo Piano – The Searching Years No.1
06. Autumn– Heslington Primary School
07. Bright Eyes – The Small Choir of St. Brandon’s School
08. The Song Of The Shadows – Christopher Tophill
09. An Aleatory Game – Sounds and Silence
10. Action Beat – Improvised Piece for Two Xylophones and Drums – The Searching Years No.1
11. A’ Soalin’ – The Lyttle Folk
12. Little Henrietta – Searching Years No.1
13. Musique Concrete – Sounds and Silence
14. Alleluia – Sounds And Silence
15. Duet For Two Flutes – Jill Whitehead
16. Strawberry Fair – The Nick Nack Kids
17. Busy Streets – Hutton School Choir
18. Piece for Oboe and Piano – Rhoda Ashfield
19. Piece for String Quartet – Searching years No.1
20. Jimmy Whalen – The Lyttle Folk
21. The Lyke-Wake Dirge – Sounds and Silence
22. 1st Movement Of Sonata in a By Scarlatti – Shirley Salzedo
23. The Lonely Coast- Peter Brewis
24. Don’t Drink And Drive – Hutton School Choir
25. Humoresque – Piece For Solo Piano and Flute – Graeme Quinton-Jones