The Campus View elementary music program is in the winnerB次元官网网址檚 circle for the second time in a matter of months.
Lieut. Governor Judith Guichon announced Campus View in her trio of 2018 winners for the 11-and-under category of the 2018 Sing Me a Song community music contest.
Campus ViewB次元官网网址檚 winning song, Where I Want to Be, was written by a pair of Grade 5 students at Campus View, Isobel Murray and Lillian Cole, and performed by the 60-student choir.
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Going into the project the class talked about how to write a song, such as using verses and constructing a chorus, Onuma said. The class shared ideas about what they liked about B.C. and the community.
Onuma did lay down the ukulele chords and bass string for those instruments to accompany the singing.
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For winning, the music program gets $1,000 and will perform their song at the Government House.
ItB次元官网网址檚 the third contest won by a Campus View group in a little over a year, as co-ordinated the schoolB次元官网网址檚 out-of-school Orffestra band which won the . Campus ViewB次元官网网址檚 Orffestra also won the and had their version of the Olympic theme broadcast during the 2018 Olympics.
Campus View is one of three winners for the 2018 Sing Me a Song contest. (Cantabile Choir) won the under-18 category for The Heart of Beautiful B.C. and in the open category Qualicum BeachB次元官网网址檚 The Gardens Choir won the open category for .
Entries were scored on musicality, spirit and originality by a panel of musicians, which included Louise Rose, music maker, piano and voice teacher at The Chwyl School of Contemporary Music at The Victoria Conservatory of Music and Brian Wismath, music director of Vox Humana Chamber Choir, Linden Singers of Victoria, Victoria Choral Society and Victoria Conservatory of Music Chorale. All submissions had to have a minimum of eight voices, be original content and inspired by the theme of what British Columbia means to them.
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