Middle School Music Makers: Chorus Students Need a Keyboard!
Funded Jan 29, 2012Thank you so much for your generous donation toward purchasing our digital piano. It has been a major boon to my students! Our Middle Grades Chorus uses the piano at every weekly rehearsal. The instrument projects well in the gymnasium with only the on-board speakers. The students are thus able to hear the accompaniment more clearly, and so their singing is in tune. I, as the conductor-accompanist, am also able to play more musically with the touch-sensitive keyboard action, allowing me to provide more musical information to the students while singing. This has proved essential, since I am unable to use my hands to conduct expressively while also playing the piano!
We have also used this instrument for a variety of performances already. It is extremely portable, so I have been able to easily move it between our two school buildings. (You may recall that our school suffered a fire a few years ago and so we are housed on two different campuses.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Epstein