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Spring traditionally is a busy time in the Luverne Elementary music department.
However, this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, choral instructors Morgan Van Holland and Beth Capistran and band instructor Angie Swenson have taken a different route by assembling a video.
“We chose a musical area for each grade level to focus on,” Van Holland said. “Each class within that grade level has an activity they will be performing.”
Fifth-grade band students performed lesson pieces by instrumental sections.
The kindergarten through fifth-grade performances offer an inside look into the teachers’ daily lessons where students practice rhythm, reading music and/or learning body movements.
No singing occurred in the classrooms this year.
“In order to sing in our classrooms, students must be separated a minimum of 6 feet from each other,” Capistran said. “We are not able to do that in our