More than 120 students spent their Pro-D Day last Friday learning new songs — including one in Hebrew — at the School District 43’s annual elementary honour choir day.
Organized by the Coquitlam Music Teachers Association, this year’s event was held at Ranch Park elementary where teachers Grace Lee and Diana Clark concluded the day with a concert.
Students were selected by their schools to take part in the clinics with other district music teachers, learn three tunes and perform them in the final show before parents and staff. At the end, each child was given a certificate of appreciation and sheet music to one of the pieces.
“We have some really strong, talented children,” Lee told the crowd gathered in the gym.
Lee and Clark are both well known in the district for their music education: In 2016, Lee’s class penned a Canada 150 composition, A Little Thanks, that earned the inaugural Enthusiasm and Spirit Award, in the Sing Me A Song program, from B.C.’s Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon; Clark is the artistic director of the award-wining Coastal Sound Music Academy.
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