Following the Bafta Award-winning success of The Choir, the sequel The Choir – Boys Don’t Sing returns to BBC Two this week.
Featuring the highs and lows of ever-patient choirmaster Gareth Malone, the series follows Gareth as he tackles, in his usual head-on way, the task of teaching choral singing in Lancaster School – a large boys’-only state school in Leicester.
Sense of Sound was called upon to help inspire and encourage the boys’ participation. Members of Sense of Sound Choir spent a day in the school delivering workshops and performing alongside the boys. The 4 part series starts on BBC Two at 9pm on Friday 1st February. Sense of Sound will appear in episode three on BBC Two at 9pm on Friday 15th February so make sure you tune in to see what happened!
wow they were brilliant what fantastic singers and the way you inspired those boys was so brilliant. im in a choir and its not an ease thing to encourage boys to sing. what beautiful harmonies you produce absolutely amazing thankyou for entertaining me and doing all you can to introduce new generations of talent you should be proud jodie x
They are fabulous … so much work, so much to overcome but so worth the effort! You made it so relevant and in context to their own lives. Just shows what young boys can achieve given the inspiration and motivation. Congratulations to all involved!!
I was really surprised by the appearance of your choir. Wow, this sounded
great! It was great to see how the boys were made enthousiastic for the
choir!
How fabulous! What a lovely sound and how inspirational..I cried!!
One or two things really struck me, the first was the incredible sound
emanating from that amazing, energetic group of extremely talented
singers, it was so beautiful, full and harmonious.
Their choice of song, “Cry Me A River” was so fit for purpose too.
Their style of delivery had an amazing, immediate transformational effect
on the boys’ attitude and behaviour towards creating music.
I think all secondary school music and P.E.teachers in the UK need to go on a creative course with Sense of Sound. Gareth Malone, through his work and TV series
is raising so many issues around creativity, (or lack of it), in education
today. Let’s have a TV series featuring the work of Sense of Sound and
more of Gareth’s innovative, brave, pioneeering work!
We are avid watchers of ‘The Choir’ and we were as astonished as the rapping kids when ‘Sense of Sound’ gave their demo. We had never heard of the ensemble and thought that they were just awesome, both in their performance and attitude. We are very keen to have a cd of their singing. Are there any on the market yet?
Wonderful to be reminded that boys who rap can also love singing if they can see how to align their talents and energy with it. You are an inspirational team!
Many thanks for touching my spirit!
Inspiring - we cried when we heard your music last week. How wonderful to get those boys singing, those kids ooze natural talent and to have the chance to sing because it is OK to do so, to be “cool” with the gang, as they say, was truly awe inspiring. May more children be inspired by the likes of you and the amazing Gareth. Our 11 year old instantly thought you were OK when he heard you sing Beautiful Girl by Shaun Kingston!
I just want to say how much I enjoyed the series II.
Just to say that Gareth’s skill and determination paid off again. He
is able to get alongside students, whatever their background and encourage
them as only he can. It was a moving series for me to watch and I know
those boys will not forget their experience in that choir. Am full of
admiration for Gareth and in my humble opinion he should receive an
accolade for recognition of his expertise, his empathy, his tenacity but most of all
for his unique ability to touch the lives of young people in such a
positive way.
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