Back then, the Taiwan Provincial Orchestra was promoting a plan to “ bring music to the countryside, ” and they had selected three elementary schools each in the mountainous Xinyi and Ren ’ ai townships for instruction in recorders, percussion and choral singing.
當時台灣省立交響樂團正好推動「音樂下鄉」計畫，選定群山深處的信義鄉、仁愛鄉各 3 所小學教授直笛、打擊樂和合唱，久美國小被選為合唱的實驗學校。