Music in Schools Projects

KAVISHAS PROJECTS WITH SCHOOLS

In the past I have worked with MUSICA VIVA 1993-96 and the SONG ROOM   and I love working with children.

I also had the pleasure of working with 6 schools this year(2013).  I was commissioned by the Songroom to write a school song for Saint Andrew's Primary School in Werribee based on thier motto" Live, Love & Learn".They now are singing this at assemblies and other gatherings.

Andrew was a fisherman
he cast his net on the water wide
Oh Andrew catch my beating heart
as it tumbles on the roaring tide

We may be young but this we know
Our elders wisdom helps us grow
Through the storms and good times too|
To live with a heart that’s strong and true

Chorus

Learn to Live
Live to Love
Love to Learn
May the lamp of our hearts brightly burn

Come one come all you girls and boys
At our school we share our joy
Everyone is welcome here
To live a life that’s free from fear

Also through the Song Room I had workshopped "Angellare`"  in a music teachers workshop afew years before and it all came to fruition this year with their teacher Zoe Barry . The children of Debney Meadows Primary (listen here) re-created  Angellare` with new lyrics about an owl baby who is leaving homecalle "Hoo Hoo can i follow you?"

Our Lady of la Vang is a new school for children with special needs in Adelaide. Formally Saint Anne's Special school, Mary Kelson one of the coordinators, asked me to write a healing song for them.The song tells the story of Our Lady Of La Vang in Vietnam and it brings the story to the present and talks about living in safety and freedom. I was invited to perform this with an amazing group of teenagers at the huge Catholic Interschool Music Festival in Adelaide and we got a standing ovation in Festival Hall from 2000 people! We sang it  again at the opening of the school in October. Hear the new song and Watch the YOUTUBE here

Our Lady Of La Vang © K Mazzella 2013

As cold rain fell around us

we bowed our heads to pray

O lady of La Vang Forest

Please show us the way

Eat of the medicine tree you said and put your faith in me

O Lady of La Vang Forest you keep us safe and free

JOyfully safe and free

 we'll live in peace together you and me

 evry girl and evry boy is welcome here

 Share our joy

 And for all the children

 so innocent of heart

 always let their laughter

 be the treasure we shall guard

as we teach our children

Our hearts will always beat for love and justice

to live the truth so deep

JOyfully etc...

And when we are worried

When we feel alone

 Let our hearts open as you guide us home

Lady of La Vang forest as we walk upon lifes way

 A new day is dawning and this we celebrate

JOyfully etc...

 

 CORO DI BAMBINI 2013-15

And finally I had the delight to work with with 3 primary schools in Melbourne over a 3 year period. They were  Princess Hill ,Brunswick North and Brunswick South West Primary Schools and I worked over a period of 3 months workshopping with the teachers Bruna Centafanti ,Marie Lyon and Anne Marie Secculi this choir of 90 wonderful children. It was called Coro Dei Bambini and its mission was to teach italian language  and culture through song through linking the 3 schools in friendship through the love of italian language.We performed  for the first time in late November 2013., 2014 and 2015  to delighted parents ,grandparents and teachers and made many good memories thanks to the dream of Italian teacher Marie Lyon.