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The Little Angels School of Korea: A Very Special Learning Experience |
| Section: THE ARTS / INTERARTS |
| Author: Cynthia Grenier |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,338 Words, 8,109 Characters |
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A half-hour's drive east from the center of Seoul through bumper-to-bumper early-evening traffic on the elevated Ch'onggyegogaro Freeway brings you to the sudden calm of the Children's Garden Park. Just outside its walls stands a handsome marble complex of modern buildings: the Sun Hwa School--the School of the Little Angels.
Teenage girls and boys, friends, and family laugh, chat, and jostle one another as they enter the large white, gold, and scarlet concert hall of the Little Angels Performing Arts Center. With their light summer dresses, freshly pressed jeans, and shining hair, the youngsters seem very like their counterparts in the States.
Tonight the concert--a kind of graduation recital--is presented by the senior class' seventy-member symphony orchestra. The program emphasizes Mo...
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...ow, ending with little girls dressed as military cadets prancing engagingly to a march by John Philip Sousa, then singing a medley of songs in perfect English, Japanese, and Korean. The vibrantly colored tapestry curtain that fell at the end bore the words "Happy World" in the lower right-hand corner. The message seemed entirely appropriate to the occasion and the response of the audience.
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