Ask a kid what's fun to do and it's unlikely you'll get the answer, "Learning Gregorian chant." But about 40 kids in Ave Maria are having a ball learning to sing the medieval liturgical music.
They're doing it using a type of instruction called the Ward Method, which uses exercises and fun to learn music.
At their first practice Wednesday night in the choir loft of the Ave Maria Oratory, it was hard to tell who was having more fun - the kids or their teacher, Jennifer Donelson, who energetically worked the children through a program of both physical and musical exercises to develop their sense of pitch and rhythm.
Dr. Donelson is so enthusiastic about the class that to do it, she's driving once a week across the Florida panhandle from her home near Ft. Lauderdale, where she teaches music at Nova Southeastern University.
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