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Off The Podium: Sumer Is Icumen In

April 7, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

When I was an elementary and middle school music teacher (1991 – 2007), I structured a lot of my curriculum – especially the songs I chose to teach my students – around the seasons.  While it may seem like an obvious educational strategy, I think it is important to stress the value of this.  Children in […]

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Off The Podium: How Great is the Pleasure

February 4, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

This lovely eighteenth century canon was a staple of my school choirs’ repertoires throughout my entire teaching career. I came across it in a songbook when I first started teaching at Blue Rock School in the early 1990s, and I believe I taught this to every choir I directed until I left teaching in 2014. […]

Filed Under: Off The Podium Tagged With: canon, Henry Harington, How Great is the Pleasure, Off The Podium, Walter Bitner

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