{"id":34121,"date":"2017-07-20T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=34121"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:26:56","slug":"alpacas-los-kana-wawakunas-hilltop-singing-shenandoah-valley-childrens-choir-visits-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/alpacas-los-kana-wawakunas-hilltop-singing-shenandoah-valley-childrens-choir-visits-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpacas, Los k’ana Wawakuna and hilltop singing: Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir visits Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice alpaca? Ernesto. Mean, spitting alpaca? Pancho. Ice cream? \u201cBest ever.\u201d Hamburger? \u201cPeculiar-tasting.\u201d Dogs? 1,186. Cats? \u201cAbout 4.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Humor, food notes, marvel and occasional touches of homesickness thread the reflections by choristers among the 27 members of the <\/span>Shenandoah Valley Children\u2019s Choir<\/span><\/a> (SVCC) who spent two weeks this summer in Cusco, Peru, in part to collaborate with a Peruvian children\u2019s choir to record and film a music video for release this fall. SVCC is\u00a0a program of Eastern Mennonite University.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going there to show how good we are,\u201d artistic and executive director Janet Hostetter<\/a> told the choristers before the trip. \u201cWe\u2019re going down there to experience another culture and to embrace it and to learn from it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moments<\/b><\/h3>\n
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SVCC choristers, chaperones and director Janet\u00a0Hostetter on the top of a double-decker bus in Cusco.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Choristers visited Machu Picchu and two Mennonite churches, performed numerous times, including in a Catholic mass, a school concert and two city squares, learned about Andean music and traditional dance, soaked up Peruvian culture, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only two days into the trip, a chorister sustained a leg injury requir<\/span>ing stitches. Fortunately a chaperone who is also a physician had brought along medical supplies and stitched the wound \u2014 on a kitchen table in a dining area.<\/p>\n

On another day, wrote Emily Reichard in one of the daily Facebook posts<\/a> by various choristers, the group \u201cvisited a local children’s school, Promesa, where we sang and read with students. I enjoyed reading a Thomas the Tank Engine book to a sweet little boy \u2014 even though he was more interested in playing Spanish Bingo with his friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Skylar Wampler recalled \u201csinging in a Spanish church service that was so beautiful I cried not once, but twice,\u201d and \u201cwashing every white SVCC shirt by hand with three others in Mrs. Hostetter\u2019s bathtub and hanging them to dry on a makeshift clothesline in the empty swimming pool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

John Byrd wrote that the trip \u201cdefinitely pulled me out of the perspective of a teenage boy living in Virginia. I think I owe that to the mostly cold showers and eating bread almost religiously every morning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Intern Ben Luna lost his glasses out an open train window. \u201cLuckily another chorister had a pair of spare glasses with a similar prescription in one eye,\u201d wrote MacRae Richardson. \u201cThe other eye was not the same, however. To solve the problem, Ben covered the one eye with his drink coaster. Thus, Ben looks like a pirate with girls\u2019 glasses and an \u2018Inca Rail\u2019 eye patch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Machu Picchu left Afton Rhodes-Lehman in \u201cpure shock. I was already expecting beauty but the scenery blew me away. The air was cool and fresh, and the mountains that surrounded me baffled me with their majesty and grandeur. Their peaks were hidden by fog and clouds, which made it feel like they had pierced the dome of the sky.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nathan Sprouse (left) and Brook Hostetter (right) ride horses with other SVCC members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than halfway into the trip, the group divided for an afternoon of either horseback riding or shopping. \u201cI don\u2019t think my horse liked me because I was too big for it,\u201d wrote Jonathan Murch. \u201cAt one point during the ride, Mr. Horse got its tail stuck in some barbed wire; so, I dismounted and detangled its tail and then Mr. Horse ran off. This was unfortunate because I paid a decent amount of money to ride him. In the end, I got him back and had a grand ole\u2019 time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As the end of the trip neared, Helene Holzer said, \u201cPeru has been one of the greatest experiences of my life,\u201d and Josiah Ropp reflected that the choristers \u201chave all become closer and gotten to know each other better \u2026 even if there were a few bumps in the road. I am sad to say that this trip is almost up but glad that I will be able to get up and take a shower whenever I want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Caroline Dean began the final post with, \u201cSunday was sadly our last [full] day in Cusco, but it definitely wasn\u2019t sad!\u201d and recounts the feeling of welcome in the church where the choir sang that day, meeting the trip\u2019s 1,142nd dog (she reports seeing 43 more on the way back to the hostel, and one more on the way to the airport the next day), and procrastinating with roommates before packing up to leave for home. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an amazing experience,\u201d she wrote, adding that the memories are ones \u201cthat we will hold close to us for the rest of our lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Most difficult but most satisfying\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n

Not everything on the trip went as planned, of course. But what did happen was reciprocity, said Hostetter, perhaps most notably with Los k’ana Wawakuna<\/a>, a Peruvian children\u2019s choir directed by Amilcar Soto. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Hans Holzer (left), Sam Groff and Jonathan Murch bring \u201ca song for all to sing\u201d on top of Pukomoqo Hill, the site of Cristo Blanco, while filming with Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soto, whose passion for Peruvian culture is evident in the sound and look of his choir, wrote a song in Spanish and Quechua for Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna and SVCC to record and sing in a music video. The video will show both choirs singing the song on a hilltop that on one side overlooks Cusco. The view from the other side, though, where the SVCC choristers begin in the video, looks like it could be the Shenandoah Valley. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOriginally we were going to have Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna run to join the SVCC choristers, but realized that would misrepresent the idea of collaboration,\u201d Hostetter said. \u201cSo instead, we had everyone run to the middle, to become a new choir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFlexibility\u201d became Hostetter\u2019s mantra throughout the project: The five planned days devoted to the project ended up being reduced to one day \u2014 which then turned into three partial days. She unexpectedly needed to entertain the children of Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna on the first night they arrived in Cusco because Soto could not come until the next day. Then, because Soto teaches his choir without written music and so had provided none to SVCC, Hostetter resorted to writing the lyrics in large handwriting on a legal pad, which she held up for the singers to read. And with the project unexpectedly in development even as it was underway, Hostetter had to figure out how to translate portions of the song into English text that would fit both rhythmically and thematically \u2014 as late as on the bus ride to the studio on the day of recording.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, in the studio, a chorister who felt sick came to SVCC intern Ben Luna, who at the moment was holding the legal pad of lyrics and translations. Luna and the chorister left quickly for a restroom down the street, in their hurry taking along the legal pad, unintentionally bringing the recording session to a standstill.<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, it was more than just a couple times that Hostetter wasn\u2019t sure the project would come together. <\/span><\/p>\n

Even so, by the last day of collaboration she described a spirit of \u201ctotal trust\u201d: things <\/span>had<\/span><\/i> worked out. That final day, when the door of the bus bringing the Los k’ana Wawakuna choristers opened and released the flood of children to the filming site, \u201cthe joy was palpable,\u201d she said, with \u201clove and hugs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna parents, too, showed warmth to Hostetter and the SVCC choristers at the film site. When the lady with the alpaca (the mean one, Pancho) insisted on overcharging Hostetter for its appearance in the video, those parents stepped in and admonished the lady, \u201cNo! Don\u2019t do this to them!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were looking out for us,\u201d Hostetter said. \u201cWe were friends.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Soto and parents of Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna went on to invite SVCC to pray with them, which Hostetter said was a \u201cmoving\u201d time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project was \u201cby far the most difficult thing to line up, but the most satisfying,\u201d said Hostetter\u2019s daughter Brook, who, having lived for two years in Cusco as an Eastern Mennonite Missions and Virginia Mennonite Missions worker, facilitated the SVCC trip. <\/span><\/p>\n

Doctoral research<\/b><\/h3>\n
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SVCC choristers line the rustic stairs leading to the trout farm in Lucre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For SVCC director Hostetter, the trip had an additional layer: thesis research discovering the pedagogical practices of choirs of national or international renown for her anticipated doctorate of musical arts from James Madison University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna<\/span><\/a>\u00a0was the first of five choirs that Hostetter will compare and contrast, along with <\/span>Jitro<\/span><\/a> in the Czech Republic, <\/span>Hail Mary the Queen Children\u2019s Choir<\/span><\/a> in the Philippines, <\/span>Drakensberg Boys Choir<\/span><\/a> in South Africa, and <\/span>The Australian Children\u2019s Choir<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amilcar Soto\u2019s Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna, Hostetter thinks, is a bright spot because of its ardent preservation and presentation of Peruvian culture and ways of teaching music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very different from our traditions, but I found it so valuable,\u201d said Hostetter, a 1987 graduate of EMU. \u201cSoto has kept the Peruvian culture so passionately steeped in what they do, and it begged me to ask the question, \u2018How would I, as the director of the Shenandoah Valley Children\u2019s Choir, passionately produce music of this region with the choir like he does?\u2019 I\u2019m not sure that I can, in part because we are not one uniform culture. We are a melting pot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An overcome barrier<\/b><\/h3>\n

The language barrier that SVCC faced in Peru was real, Hostetter reflects, but it didn\u2019t keep the choristers from dubbing their hostel cooks \u201cwonderful ladies\u201d or stifle the enthusiasm for the clapping games played together by SVCC and Los k\u2019ana Wawakuna choir members.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Hostetter remembers the heartfelt thanks offered to her after SVCC sang in a church service, when a four-feet tall lady grabbed her around the neck and held tight, exclaiming again and again, \u201cGracias, mama! Gracias mama!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That<\/span><\/i> was an embrace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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