Thanks for your kind words Sarah and for sharing your story! -Lisa I LOVE what you are doing and intend to tell all of my students and teacher-friends who are not musicians to utilize your website to help them incorporate culture and music into their curricula." Youtube link to my son singing "Sansa Kroma." (The video is also posted above.) My children all grew up singing it, though even a little differently.Ĭhoral composer, Felicia Sandler has a fantastic arrangement of the piece available in SSA or SAB and it's really nice. and let them know to tell the story to the choir at the next rehearsal. I sent an e-mail to my students back in the U.S. But it was such a beautiful, unifying moment. They wanted me to sing for them, but I cleverly changed the subject and told them I knew only one Ghanaian song, but I didn't know if they would know it because it was an Akan song- and one of the women exclaimed 'I am Akan! I am from Kumasi- what is the song?' So I told her 'Sansa Kroma,' and she began singing- so I sang along with her, and her version was slightly different. I took my beautiful new daughter (almost two years old at the time) to the salon at the hotel where we were staying to have her hair braided, which took several hours, so I spent the afternoon talking with the women there, and I told them I was a musician- a choir director and singer. When in Ghana, adopting my children, I had been working on Sansa Kroma with my women's choir at the university where I was teaching at the time.
Sansa Kroma is one of the few songs published for choirs, that I have done with my choral ensembles, and it is one that children know. I am particularly drawn to your Ghanaian section, as my children are adopted from Ghana and Ashanti.
As I was looking for online links to help students better understand and plan for teaching about music of other countries and cultures in their classrooms, I discovered your website. I currently teach an online 'Music in the Early Childhood Classroom' course, which is designed for students who desire to be preschool teachers/directors and do not have any music background. My primary area is vocal, as I am a choral conductor, but I am passionately interested in the music of all cultures and ethnicities. I have been teaching music 20 years now and have taught elementary through graduate level students.
I am a college music professor and music educator. Sarah Graham wrote to us about her family's experience with this song:
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