A lively affirmation of individual differences, this song includes such unlikely compadres as the Ugly Duckling, Rudolph the Reindeer, Ruby Bridges, Susan B. Anthony, and Shakespeare!
The chorus of this song includes brief cameo appearances by a number of small percussion instruments. The score suggests jingle bells, slide whistle, duck call, ratchet, claves and guiro, but creative performers may substitute other instruments they have around - or wish to create!
Item | Instrumentation/Voicing | Duration | Level | Audio | Peruse | Delivery Method (Print vs. Digital) | Price | Quantity |
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SEA-003-01 | SA, piano, miscellaneous percussion - Choral Score | 2' | ME | https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/being_who_you_are.mp3 |
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Sheet Music | $2.25 | |
SEA-003-01DEL | SA, piano, miscellaneous percussion - Choral Score | 2' | ME | https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/being_who_you_are.mp3 |
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Licensed PDF | $2.25 |
I composed Being Who You Are with students from Waunakee Elementary School. They came up with the idea that the different percussion instruments were like individual people, a metaphor which I still find moving.
Premiere: Entire student body of Waunakee Elementary School / Kathy Bartling (Waunakee, WI)
Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir "Cantabile Choir" / Ann Schrooten (Bloomington, MN)
Boston Children's Chorus / Jason Holmes. Wang Theater (Boston, MA)
Children's Choir of First Unitarian Universalist Church / Dema Solberg (Houston, TX)
Children's choir of Grace Episcopal Church / Ann Matlack (Madison, NJ)
Heather Hottman. KidsSing Concert, The Rose Theater (Omaha, NE)
Rachel Long (Madison, WI)
Sartell Middle School Choir / Leah Mockenhaupt (Sartell, MN)
The OK Chorale, Unitarian Universalist Church of Midland / Sonja K. Millichamp (Midland, MI)
Treble Choir Repertoire Workshop / Andrew Ellingsen. Conference of the Organization of American Kodály Educators (St. Paul, MN)
Westridge School Elementary Choir / Elizabeth Hangar (Pasadena, CA)
Children's Choir of Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church / Dave Simmons (Overland Park, KS)
Choir of Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church / Rachel Long (Madison, WI)
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration / Jane K Hulting (Philadelphia, PA)
Youth Choir of Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua / Jed Holland (Nashua, NH)
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