Three Dog Night and Dixie: the Innocent, Complicit Pluralism of my Childhood Music Class
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In these divided and angry days, I am thinking of Mr. Purdy’s music class at Carmel River School. Several generations of children passed through Bill Purdy’s music education courses in the Carmel Unified School District. A tall, angular man with a huge nose and a larger smile, Mr. Purdy taught the sullen, the tone-deaf, the over-enthusiastic and the generally bewildered to sing. He was a full-time public elementary school music teacher, an alien concept to anyone born after about 1980.
Three Dog Night and Dixie: the Innocent, Complicit Pluralism of my Childhood Music Class
Three Dog Night and Dixie: the Innocent…
Three Dog Night and Dixie: the Innocent, Complicit Pluralism of my Childhood Music Class
In these divided and angry days, I am thinking of Mr. Purdy’s music class at Carmel River School. Several generations of children passed through Bill Purdy’s music education courses in the Carmel Unified School District. A tall, angular man with a huge nose and a larger smile, Mr. Purdy taught the sullen, the tone-deaf, the over-enthusiastic and the generally bewildered to sing. He was a full-time public elementary school music teacher, an alien concept to anyone born after about 1980.