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CMS Winter Chorus Concert 2025

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Source
YouTube / Cinnaminson Township Public Schools - Event Video
Date
2025-12-12
Location
Burlington County, NJ
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Transcript
Extent
2,867 words · about 16 min
Collected
2026-06-05

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001Come on. How are you? I've heard that pizza. That's But uh >> Good evening, esteemed guests. Welcome. The choir is seriously low-key stoked to be performing for you tonight. We've been putting in the work. We clocked what feels like six or 700 hours getting these songs ready. And honestly, the whole show is going to be fire. This is definitely going to be peak holiday vibes. Before we get rolling with the music, two quick reminders. Bad. If your phone's making noise, that's negative vibes, negative aura for the audience, and nobody needs that tea. So, please make sure your phone is muted or set to do not disturb so it doesn't interrupt our vibe. Also, hold your applause until the song is fully done. We want you to catch the whole thing because we're the goats. All

002right. Uh, now let's get this fire performance started. I'm absolutely pumped to bring up McKenna Cassidy. Give it up for McKenna. [applause] McKenna wrote an original poem. In fact, all the poems read today are original poems by these students. And it's definitely going to set the perfect tone. It's giving main character energy, don't you think? Yeah. Take it away, Mao. Clap it. The engine hums. The road stretches bright beneath a vast and glowing light. Turn on the wheel. Take to flight. On this road, freedom's our delight. The holiday spirit, a vibrant flood, less singing and cheer with a beautiful sound on this joy festive holiday road. [applause and music] [music] >> It's a long way down the holiday road. Oh, Holiday [singing and music] Ro. [music] [singing] >> Jack be nimble. [singing] Jack be quick.

003[music] >> Take [singing] a ride on the West Coast. Oh, [music] holiday [singing] road. Holiday road. [singing] Holiday ro. [singing and music] [singing and music] [music] I found out [singing and music] >> I found out [singing] long ago. >> It's a long way [singing] down the holiday [music] road. [singing] >> Holiday road. [music] Holiday [singing] road. Holiday [singing] roll. [music] Holiday roll. [music and singing] >> Chappy nipple. Jappy Quake. >> Take a ride on the West Coast cake. [music and singing] >> Oh, Holiday Road. Oh, [music] holiday road. [singing] Oh. [music and singing] Oh. [singing] [music] Oh. Oh. [music and singing] >> [cheering and applause] [applause] >> Please welcome Molly Gedling performing a holiday classic, It's Beginning to Look Aot Like Christmas. [applause] It's beginning to look [music and singing] a lot like Christmas everywhere

004[singing] you go. [music] Take a look at the five and 10. It's glistening [music] once again with candy [singing] canes and silver lids that glow. It's beginning to [music] look a lot like Christmas. Toys [singing] in every store. But the prettiest sight to see is a holly that [music] will be right within your heart. A pair of purple and a pistol chalk [singing] is a hope and mom and dad wait for school to start again. It's beginning to look [singing and music] a lot like Christmas. >> Everywhere you go, there's a tree in [singing] the grand hotel. One in the park as [music] well. It's a sturdy [singing] kind that doesn't mind the snow. It's [singing and music] beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere [singing] you go. Oh, but the thing that will

005make [singing] them ring is the Holly that you see right within your [singing] heart. [applause] [cheering] [applause] >> [cheering] >> The tires slow, the journeys done beneath that bright Caribbean sun. The road that here to sand and sea to where we're truthfully, fully free. A roads of roads, a sacred track from which the heart can't turn its back. For Puerto Rico, island bright is always home, my guiding light. >> [applause] [music] >> Singless [music] [singing] [music and singing] >> [music and singing] >> Klay [music] [singing and music] Lay Lo Slay [music and singing] lighthouse [singing] [music] [music and singing] [music] [singing] did >> [singing] [singing] >> Godzilla Santos. [singing] [cheering and applause] Leo [music and singing] l [music and singing] [music] [singing] >> [singing] [music] [applause] [cheering] >> Please welcome Elelliana Frell performing a contemporary

006favorite, Cozy Little Christmas. [applause] Everybody's in a hurry. In a flurry. Shopping till they're dropping in the [singing and music] snow. Kids are crying. Dogs are barking. Catching up with folks you barely know. [singing] Sure it's madness, but it's magic. As soon as you hang up a mistletoe, cuz you're the reason for the season. No, we don't need to keep up with the drones. Our [singing] love is something priceless. I don't need diamonds, no sparkly things. No. [singing] Cuz you can't buy this feeling. Oh, [singing] nothing lights my fire me up baby like you do. Just want to cozy a cozy little Christmas here with you. So, Mr. [music] Santa, take the day off. Get a massage cuz we've got [music] this one all under control. A little whiskey. We're getting frisky and slow dancing

007to knacking cold. No stressing, just caressing [music] and warming up a popsicle of toast. Nothing's [music] missing cuz you're a blessing. Yeah, you're the only one I'm [music] wishing for. [singing] Our love is something priceless. I don't need a diamond, no sparkly things. No, cuz you can't buy this feeling. No, nothing me up, baby. Just want [music] a cozy a cozy little Christmas here with you. I don't need anything. Take back all that Cardier and Tiffany's and the Chanels. Actually, can I keep that now, please? No, no, no, no. I don't need diamonds, no spooky things. No, cuz you can't buy this feeling. Nothing lights me up, baby. Just want a cozy little Christmas. Just you and me under a tree. A cozy little Christmas here with you. [applause] The air is cold and crisp.

008You can barely feel your fingertips. The year is coming to an end. So, let us stop this feeling of dread. >> It's time to start off something new. No more feeling blue. Do you see that bird up in the tree singing? That's a sign of a new beginning. Let us forget about the past and make some new memories that will last. Surround yourself with family and friends. Create a feeling that you never want to end. [applause] In the hush of winter nights, dream of memories softly sleep. The bells begin the drift ring. A song of hope that saint will sing. Frosty air with shimmering lights dance under the moon so bright. Children's laughter shining clear. Fills the world with festive cheer. Hearts beat warmth with love's embrace of a timeless gentle grace. House heart house

009to house heart to heart. The spirit of Christmas plays its part. Stars above and sion glow guide us where the c kindness flows. In every chime and every spell resounds the magic of the bells. So let us share this joyful song with everyone both weak and strong. For in this season spell will find our peace with the Christmas bell. [applause] [singing] [music] >> [singing] [music] >> Lastell [singing] [music] [singing] Christmas is young to hear of the cheer from everywhere [singing] the air [music] [singing] [music] single [music] [singing] >> [singing] >> Sweet [music] Christmas [singing] to hear [singing] from everywhere. [music] [singing] People sing songs of [music] good cheer. Christmas is here. Merry, merry, merry, merry [singing] Christmas. Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas [music] to everyone [singing] to every [singing] dong. [applause] >> [applause] >> A

010whistle blows, the engine hums. A boy awakes, the journey comes beyond his window, white and deep, a world of wonder while the city sleeps. It travels onward through the cold night air. Aboard all children free from every care. At the North Pole, bright with a break of dawn, a single present by one boy is drawn. The first gift of Christmas given to the young, the beautiful message of belief is sung. The journey ends but the memory stays whole. The endless magic of the human soul. [applause] [singing] Oh baby. Oh baby. [singing] Oh baby. [music] Oh baby. Rocking on top of the world. [music] Rocking on top of the world. The place is hopping. [singing] There ain't no stopping. Rocking on top of the world. [music] Lift your spirit. Sweet girl. Rocking on top of the

011world tonight. Rocking on top [singing] of the world, baby. Rocking [music] on top of the world. The place is hopping. There ain't no stopping. [singing] [music] Rocking on top of the world. Lift your sweet girl. Rocking on [music and singing] top of the world tonight. >> Out there where it's freezing. Everybody needs some heat. No more ringy dingy. Time to get up off your feet. [singing] Oh, baby rocking [music] on top of the world. Baby, rock on top of the world. The place [music] is hopping. [singing] There ain't no stopping on top of the world. Lift your spirits. Swing that girl. Rocking on top of the world tonight. Now go. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hot. Hot. Oh, [singing] we [music] got it. Hot. Hey, we got it. Hot. Oh, we [singing] got it. Hot

012chocolate. Hot [music] oh so [singing] we got it. Hot so we got it. Hot we [singing and music] got it. >> Hot chocolate. >> Here we only got one rule. >> Here we only got one [music] rule. [singing] >> Never ever get it cool. >> Never ever let it cool. >> Keep it cooking in the pot. [music] >> Hot. Oh, we got it. Hot. Hey, we got it. Hot. Oh, [music and singing] we got it. Hot chocolate. Hot. Oh, we got it. Hot. So, [music and singing] we got it. Hot. Yo, we got it. Hot chocolate. >> Here we only got one rule. >> Here we only [singing] got one rule. >> Never ever let it cool. >> Never [music] ever let it cool. Cooking in the bus. Soon we got >> hot chocolate. [music]

013Hot. Oh, [singing] we got it. Hot. Hey, we got it. Hot. Oh, [music and singing] we got it. Hot chocolate. Hot. Oh, we got it. Hot. [music] So, [singing] we got it. Hot. Yo, we got it. Hot chocolate. Here we only got one rule. >> HERE WE ONLY GOT one rule. [singing] >> Never ever let it cool. [singing] >> So we got a chocolate. [applause] Please welcome Jonathan Massa performing Jingle Bell Rock. [applause] >> [music] >> Jingle [singing] bell, jingle bell, jingle [music] bell rock. Jingle bell swing and jingle bells ring. Now the jingle hop. Jingle bell, [singing] jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells chiming, [music] jingle bell time, dancing and prancing in jingle bell square in the frosty [singing] air. What a bright time is the [singing] right time to rock the night

014away. Jingle bell time is a [singing] swell time to go riding in a onehorse [singing] sleigh. Giddy up, jingle horse, pick up your feet, jingle [singing and music] all around the clock. Mix and a mingle in the jingling beat. That's the jingle bell rock. Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle [singing] bell rock. Jingle bells ching bell time. Dancing and prancing and jingle bell square in the frosty air. What a bright time is the right [singing] time to rock the night away. Jingle bell [singing] time is a swell time to go riding [singing] in a onehorse sleigh. Giddy up, jingle horse, pick up your feet. Jingle around the clock. [singing] Mix and a mingle in the jingle beat. That's the jingle bell. That's the jingle bell. That's the jingle bell rock. [applause] Candles glow with golden light.

015Eight nights shining warm and bright. Stories of courage softly tell the miracles of long ago as well. Listen close. Let voices raise and join this Hanukkah day. [applause] Check. Check. All right. [music] Light a candle [music] in the [singing] night. >> Hanukkah. [music] >> Hanukkah. [singing] Freom. [music and singing] >> Like God begin the night. Like God, fire burning bright. Every candle shows the way [singing and music] to cate [music] [singing] this Honuk [music] [singing] like [singing] a treasure you hold dear. Like a [music] memory so clear. The greatest gift of all is free [music] is the love of family is the love [singing] of family. Hanukkah, >> Hanukkah. Light a [music] candle [singing] in the night. >> Hanukkah, [singing] [music] >> freom tonight. [music] >> [applause] [applause] >> The snow is falling, the fire

016glows, but it's the cool ule spirit that seals the show. With jazzy rhythms and a lively beat, it turns the cold winter air into a warm retreat. Saxopones play and piano is fast. This holiday groove is built to last. Santa's got style and so did the elves. dancing and laughing, not worrying about themselves. So, pick up So, pour some hot cocoa. Pick up those shoes. Let the cool spirit chase away the blues. [applause] [music] the island to the sunset [singing] strip. Somebody's going to make a happy trip tonight. While the moon [singing] is bright, he's going to have a bag of crazy [singing] toys to give the [music] girls and boys. So deep Santa comes on [singing and music] when [singing] it snows [music] the most. When all your cats are sleeping warm as you're

017going to flip when [singing and music] Nick plays a lick on a stick [music] [singing] from a higher place until the stock by the fire place. [music] So you have you [singing] at school. [music] [singing] >> [singing] >> Skittley doy. [singing] [singing] When all [music] your cats are sleeping warm as toast, then you're going to flip when Nick plays [music] a [singing] lick on a peppermint flying from a higher place [singing and music] until the stock is by the fire. You have a you [singing] that's [music] cool. You have [singing] a you that is [music] [applause] welcome Aiden Arcano performing Walking in the Air from 1982 animated film The Snowman. [applause] We're walking in the air. We're floating in the moon. The people far below [singing] sleeping as we fly. >> I'm holding tight. I'm

018riding in the midnight blue. I'm finding I can fly so high above you. On across [singing] the world, the villages go by like trees. The rivers [singing] and the hills, the forests and the streams. Children gloves, taken by surprise. Nobody [music] down [singing] below their eyes. We're softening in the air. We're swimming in the frozen sky. We're drifting over ice and mountains rooting by Swooping low on an ocean mighty mountain from his sleep. We're walking in the air. We're dancing in the m and everyone who sees us as we fly. walking in the air. Walking in the air. [applause] Along the holiday road, we glide past twinkling trees and silver pride. The lantern stars above above us gleam, guiding us deeper into a dream. The snow hums a soft shimmering sound a lullaby of all

019is found. It drifts like a whispers through the air calling us with a gentle flare. The frost kissed winds will show the way to hidden ps of icy play where crystal rivers softly glow beneath moon's enchanted bow. So take our hand and come along into the land of frozen song. For on this winter's w night, the road itself becomes our guiding light. >> [applause] [music] >> meets the [singing] sea. There's a river full of [singing] memories. Sleep my [music] darling safe and sound for this river [singing] all in her waters [singing and music] deep and true lie the [singing] answers [music] and a path for you dive down deep [singing] into yourself, but [music] not too far or you'll be drowned. Yes, [singing and music] she will sing to those who hear and in her

020[singing] song all magic flow. But can [music] you [singing] break what you most fear? Can you face what the river [singing] knows? When the [singing] north wind meets the sea, there's [singing and music] a mother full of memories from my [singing] darling home and all [music] is lost. All is [singing] is [music] all [singing] is [music] found. [applause] Windy Nights is a coral capturing the dramatic feeling of a cold, stormy night. We hope we were able to warm your hearts with the sounds of the season amid the cold winter wind. [applause] Whenever [singing] the winds [music] are hard all night [singing] long through [music] the dark [singing] [music] night when the flies are out, why does Gallop and gallop [music] whenever [singing] the trees are going [music] [singing] the ships are tossed. The ships are

021tossed. The ships are tossed to sea. High on the highway [music and singing] low and loud by the gallop [singing and music] he goes again the gallop again whenever the winds are >> [music] >> When [singing] the late night [music] [music] stars are [singing] stars are high [singing] all night [music] long through the A man [singing] mighty God [music] when the fires are out. Why does he gallop [singing] and yell about whenever the winds are high? [music] [singing] >> [applause] >> Please welcome Chibaoli performing home from Broadway musical The Whiz. [applause] [crying] When I think of home, I think of a place [music] where there's [singing] love overflowing. I wish I was [singing and music] home. I wish I was back there with the things I've [singing] been knowing. When that makes the tall grass

022bend [singing and music] into suddenly the raindrops that fall, they have meaning. >> [music] >> Sprinkling [singing] a scene makes it [music] all [singing] so clean. Maybe [music] there's a chance for me to go [singing] back there. It would sure [singing and music] be nice to be back home where there's love and affection. And just [singing] maybe I can convince [music] time to slow up. Giving me enough time [singing] in my life to grow up. Time be my friend. Let me start again. Suddenly my world has changed it. But I still know where I'm going. I have [singing and music] had my mind spin around in space and yet I watch it grow away. And oh, if you're listening, God, please don't make it hard to know if we should believe the things we [singing]

023see. Tell us. Should we run away or should we try to say won't it be better just to let things stay? Living care in this brand new world might be a fantasy. [music] [singing] Oh, but it's turning into love. So it's real. It's so real to me. And I've learned that we must look inside our hearts to find [singing] a world full of love [screaming] like is like mine. Hey. Oh. [screaming] [applause and cheering] [applause] Thank you all so much for coming to our winter concert tonight. We've been practicing for weeks, and [snorts] yes, our family can finally stop hearing us rehears in the kitchen. >> Seriously, if we had to go over that same chorus section one more time in class, we're pretty sure half of us were about to start singing in our

024dreams or nightmares. >> We also want to thank staff who helped set everything up tonight. Lights, chairs, stands, microphones. It's all like assembling a Lego set, but with more complaining. >> And of course, our families. Thank you for driving us here, supporting us, and not giving up when we said I promise the concert is on this day. [snorts] >> Please welcome Liam Tro, who will be introducing our final song. [applause] Continuing down the holiday road, the days are short and the nights are long, but the light is here and also the darkness is gone. Because music brings joy to everyone. These songs make us happy and feeling like glee. Presents underneath the tree and bells jingling as the cold in the air makes you start tingling. [clears throat] Singing and dancing is the way we

025thrive. The Cinnamon Middle School now presents holiday hand drive [music] the season to be jolly La we [singing] now our gay apparel la [music] the ancient hillside carol la [singing and music] dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh. Over the fields we go laughing [singing and music] all the way. Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits [singing] bright. What fun it is to ride and sing a [music] day song tonight [singing] [music] [singing] [music] all the way now are gay [music] La children, [singing] jingle bells, la. We wish you a [music] wish you a happy holiday. [singing] We [music] wish you a happy holiday. A happy [singing] holiday and a happy new year [singing] and a happy a happy [singing] [music] new year. >> [cheering] [applause] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] [applause] >> Thank you. Thank

026you. Can I please uh give a round of applause for our stage managers and our Can you peek out please? D [applause] um and cherons. Thank you so much everybody. What a fantastic night. Um so privileged to work with you all. See you tomorrow. Don't be late for school. Uh please pick up your kids. Just your kids. Maybe a couple other kids. Anyway, um thank you so much for being a wonderful audience. We really enjoyed singing for you tonight. Have a great holiday season. Uh, and good night. [applause]

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