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VOX Musica Shares Choral Music With Sacramento Students

  •  Melody Stone 
Friday, February 20, 2015
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Sacramento’s women’s choral ensemble VOX Musica put their slogan, “music worth sharing,” to work with a series of school assemblies and workshops.

VOX Musica founder and director Daniel Paulson said education has always been an important aspect of what the group does, but it was last year when the Tahoe Arts Commission brought the group into Tahoe-area schools to do workshops and assemblies that the choral group really felt inspired to do more in schools.

“We just had a blast. It was just so fulfilling,” Paulson said about that first week of workshops. They worked with more than 1,000 students and the week finished up with a public concert.

After returning from Tahoe Paulson said the ensemble got together and asked, “Why aren’t we doing that here in Sacramento?”

So this week the choir members went out to 10 schools in the Sacramento area in quartets and performing madrigals, Gregorian chants and other traditional choral pieces.

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Alto, Mary Frank, takes questions from students at Saint Patrick's Academy on Friday morning during a VOX Musica assembly. Melody Stone / CapRadio Music

VOX Musica alto, Veronica Tonus, performed at Saint Patrick’s Academy for the entire school at an assembly Friday morning.

“I think it’s important for musicians and music educators to really expand their reach and share their music with as many people as possible,” said Tonus. “A lot of these kids mostly hear popular music on the radio, but may not be exposed to classical music or romantic music or any of the traditions of music we learn through music education.”

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VOX Musica director, Daniel Paulson, explains the difference between the major and minor scales at an essembly on Friday morning. Melody Stone / CapRadio Music

The students sat in rows on the gym floor while Tonus and three other VOX Musica singers explained tones, pitches, drones, tuning forks, and madrigals. They led the students in singing, “Do-Re-Mi,” from The Sound Of Music, and explained the difference between major and minor scales.

The students wanted to know how the singers could sing so many different parts all together without getting confused. The answer: practice.

The biggest applause came when the singers announced they’d sing a song from Disney’s Frozen.

Saint Patrick’s Academy has lots of music classes. David Gomez is in eighth grade and said he’s learned a handful of different instruments. He said he really enjoyed the VOX Musica assembly because he hadn’t heard music like that before.

He said he normally listens to hip-hop and the choral singing was really different from what he’s normally into.

“But different is good,” he said.

The whole week of education outreach wraps up with a concert at 5 p.m. Sunday at Beatnik Studios. The entire ensemble will sing pieces they shared with the students. 

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VOX Musica performers, Tiffany Paterson, Heather Razo, Veronica Tonus and Mary Frank, perform a variety of traditional coral songs for the students of Saint Patrick's Academy. Melody Stone / CapRadio Music

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After working in newspapers and doing print journalism for years, Melody transitioned into digital marketing and design. With a healthy blend of journalistic and digital media skills she builds out interactive web stories for Capradio.org.  Read Full Bio 

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