Birchwood Students Add Their Voices

Birchwood Intermediate School will be participating in the national broadcast of the 2011 "World's Largest Concert."

In early December, about 50 Birchwood students went to the Walt Whitman Birthplace to film a video of their choral performance of the song "When Music Plays," by Mac Huff. 

The video, which is sponsored by MENC--The National Association for Music Education as the centerpiece of "Music in Our Schools Month," will be broadcast through public-access stations and music classrooms around the country.

On March 10, millions of voices in schools and communities around the country will join in singing along with the broadcast of the "World's Largest Concert," a program of nine celebratory songs, including patriotic anthems, spirituals, and international folk songs.

The Birchwood students' teacher is Paul Kosak.

The organization says it was once called Music Supervisors National Conference, then Music Educators National Conference.  In 1998, it changed its name to MENC: The National Association for Music Education.