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v/a - classroom projects/ incredible music made by children in schools - trunk - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. Intro By Robert Gittings
2. Portland Town - Folk Group (Chelmsford County High School)
3. Examples Of 12 Note Melodies - Heslington Primary School
4. Music For Cymbals (edit) - Sounds And Silence
5. Puppets - Piece For Solo Piano - The Searching Years
6. Bright Eyes - The Small Choir Of St. Brandon's School
7. The Song Of The Shadows - Christopher Tophill
8. An Aleatory Game - Sounds And Silence
9. Alleluia - Sounds And Silence
10. Autumn - Heslington Primary School
11. A' Soalin' - The Lyttle Folk
12. Little Henrietta - Searching Years
13. Musique Concrete - Sounds And Silence
14. Piece For String Quartet - The Searching Years
15. Busy Streets - Hutton School Choir
16. Duet For Two Flutes - Jill Whitehead
17. The Lyke-Wake Dirge - Sounds And Silence
18. Jimmy Whalen - The Lyttle Folk
19. Piece For Oboe And Piano - Rhoda Ashfield
20. Humoresque %u2013 Piece For Solo Piano And Flute - Graeme Quinton-Jones

Trunk presents a beautiful compilation of rare and brilliant music made by children in schools. The album features some incredible sounds -- from charming folk songs to full blown avant-garde experiments.

Many of these recordings are exceptionally scarce (some selling for close to £1000 these days) and it's unlikely anyone will have heard any of these since they were first recorded. Recordings made by British children are hardly ever heard. Over the last few decades some schools went to the trouble of privately pressing their own LPs for plays, concerts or celebration -- and with very mixed results. Jonny Trunk has collected these scarce UK recordings and compiled the very best ones for Classroom Projects, the first collection of its kind, presenting recordings made between 1959 and 1981. As well as excellent small group versions of traditional songs, there are specially written instrumentals, covers of Italian composer Scarlatti and even songs about drunk driving.