After months of practice and fundraising, the Savannah Children’s Choir brought home a gold medal from the Concors Internazionale Di Canto Corale, held in Italy last month. Also known as “The Days of International Song,” the competition takes place every April in the ancient city of Verona, on the road between Milan and Vienna. (Think the top of the boot.)
The 28 local middle schoolers who make up SCC’s senior choir competed against 19 other choirs from around the world, including Croatia, France, Germany and Russia. Only two were children’s choirs.
“We were the youngest singers there,” reports SCC Executive Director and co–founder Cuffy Sullivan. “Even the other children’s choirs were high schools.”
Their tender ages didn’t prevent them from making a lasting impression on the international panel of judges. SCC was one of five gold medalists, an achievement Sullivan attributes to the choir’s versatility.
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