
Without a doubt, some of the students, no matter their singing ability, had a tough time hitting some of the notes in these two familiar songs. We often sang spontaneously, too, belting out “Happy Birthday” if someone was celebrating theirs on a rehearsal day. Like all of us, my students had their own preferences in terms of the styles and genres they liked to sing, but of course there were the mainstays that we all had to learn – for example, the national anthem, which we practiced as soloists and as a multi-part choir. It brought me back to my time as a music teacher in the late 2000s in my home state of Kentucky. We sang a popular duet, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow,” to the room’s applause, and I remembered how good it felt to sing into a microphone.

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