Music teacher Valerie Ransbottom directed the chorus.
The auditorium was nearly empty at the Cornwall Central Middle School on Thursday afternoon when the voices of the seventh and eighth grade chorus filled the room with song and joined with thousands of students nationwide in the World’s Largest Concert. The event was videotaped, however, and will be submitted to a national organization, the National Association for Music Education, which supports teaching music in the schools and which created the World's Largest Concert. Cornwall music teacher Valerie Ransbottom says that this is the first year that Cornwall singers have gotten involved although the concert series has been around since 1985.
On Thursday, choruses around the country sang the same songs that were part of the concert program. They included “The Green Anthem,” in which schools could submit their versions as part of a contest. Ransbottom says that the Cornwall chorus submitted three versions of the anthem.
The program for the concert was diverse, with an emphasis on environmental themes and on children around the world. At the Cornwall Middle School a select group known as the Cornwall Singers sang the Japanese song Koinobori. The performance ended with the singing of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
