A Bit of Relief: The Long Distance Chorus

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🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Gregg Breinberg has been directing the chorus at Public School 22 on Staten Island for twenty years. He tells his fourth and fifth grade students that participation is not about whether they can sing on key or not. It’s about expressing the meaning of a song — and the music inside themselves. Today, we listen to the voices of P.S. 22 as they harmonize from afar.

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0:00.0	Hi Savannah, good morning.
0:02.0	Good morning.
0:03.2	How are you?
0:04.2	Good.
0:05.7	Almelica, good morning.
0:07.1	And Tyler, good morning.
0:08.6	I'm so happy to see you.
0:11.5	Oh, good morning to the people, Competing.
0:13.6	How's it going there, sir?
0:15.4	Good.
0:16.1	So happy to have you here.
0:17.8	Hi, I'm Greg Brimerig.
0:19.4	I am the course teacher at PS22, which is an elementary school
0:22.9	on Staten Island, New York.
0:25.0	Yeah, Liam, I don't know what that sound is,
0:26.9	but maybe mute your mic when that's going on, right?
0:29.4	Overall, I'd say teaching over the pandemic
0:31.7	has been really rough.
0:32.6	I'm not going to lie.
0:33.7	Of course, I'm just trying to wait for the last minute
0:36.6	people I know it's been hard to do.
0:38.4	It's been a challenge.
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