Posted By:
Michael Scott
Posted On:
Wednesday, May 1st, 2002
Recent articles and stories in the NY Times and on National Public Radio have brought great attention to the album Innocence and Despair: The Langley Schools Music Project. The album consists of pop/rock songs such as Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon, The Eagles' Desperado, and David Bowie's Space Oddity recorded by elementary school students in 1970's rural British Columbia, with haunting, humorous, and often powerful results. Here are some wonderful letters that the former students of Hans Fenger, the district music teacher, have written about their experiences creating and recording the music.