Musical brooms

| 29 Sep 2011 | 11:43

    Just ask the fifth and sixth grade students in Darla VanSickle’s music classes at Paradise Knolls and Upper Greenwood Lake schools what music and brooms have in common. Using sweep brooms, hand brooms, dust pans and trash cans as ‘instruments,’ they were able to perform a percussion ensemble called Clean Sweep. They experimented with a variety of ways to produce the sounds they wanted from their ‘instruments’ and then combined these sounds by reading rhythm patterns and syncopations from a percussion ensemble score - and the music room floor had never looked so sparkling clean. Pictured, back row: Allison S. and Anthony L. Front row: Kelsey O. and Kaitlin R.