Six guys walk into a school assembly . . . it almost sounds like the beginning of joke doesn’t it?
Seriously, though, six twenty-something men walk into a school to present an assembly. Members of an A Cappella ensemble, they could easily just beat-box their way through covers of pop tunes to the shrieking delight of their tween-aged audience. But no . . . these gentlemen have other plans.
They plan to educate.
The young students who they will hold in rapt attention aren’t just going to hear vocal renderings of pop hits – though certainly there will be some of that. Rather, those children are going to learn that the vocal form making them whisper to one another, “That is so cool!” has an astonishingly rich history. Seems like good musical and educational citizenship.
Thus in this short clip, the members of the A Cappella group “Six Appeal” use their musical pulpit to explain (and demonstrate) Renaissance polyphony to an elementary assembly.
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