Hillside Grade School celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month in music classes

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Hillside Grade School celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month in music classes
Hillside Grade School third graders learned about Plena music in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 22. (Photo courtesy of the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District)

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, students at New Hyde Park-Garden City Park’s Hillside Grade School have been learning about instruments, songs and music-styles from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries with music teacher Joanna Malaszczyk.

Third graders recently learned about Plena, a genre of music and dance native to Puerto Rico, and the rhythms played on percussion instruments like “panderetas” (handheld drums) and “güiro” (scraped gourds). After being given a drum or gourd to play, the students practiced the rhythmic layering in Plena music by playing along with the song “Ola de la Mar.”

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