The Langley Schools Music Project: A Choir From Another Dimension?

About this episode

The episode explores the Langley Schools Music Project, a unique classroom experiment that transformed disengaged students into a captivating choir and band.

A burned out music teacher with no plan. A room full of kids. And a record that sounds like nothing else on earth. In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott, Blake, and guest Nate Catanzarite discuss the Langley Schools Music Project, which started out as a classroom experiment and ended up as a captivating cult classic. Frustrated with traditional lessons, teacher Hans Fenger let students choose songs they loved – including tunes by David Bowie and the Beach Boys – and learn them by ear, turning disengaged kids into a full-blown choir and band. Recorded live with minimal gear, the result was raw, imperfect, and strangely powerful. Decades later, a crate-digging DJ stumbled across the record and unleashed it on the world, quickly turning it into an underground sensation. Here’s how a kids’ choir accidentally summoned something truly cosmic.

People in this episode

Hosts: Blake Wyland, Scott Marquart

Guest: Nate Catanzarite

Topics covered

• Langley Schools Music Project
• music education
• choir
• cult classic
• recording history
• student engagement

Keywords

• Langley Schools Music Project
• Hans Fenger
• choir
• David Bowie
• Beach Boys
• cult classic
• music education

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