001You guys Stop right there. [Applause] I'll just Can you take a step deep breath? [Music] Song [Music] to [Music] me song to to susp. [Music] Susan Sh The ter. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Succ. [Music] song to song to song [Music] [Applause] Good evening. Test out. There it is. Good evening everyone and welcome to our sort of winter, sort of spring concert here. This is our one night where the choir really gets to show off or the choirs get to show off. This is our prelude choir, mostly freshman with one sophomore. Wave, Kaden. Um, and they have been working really hard on um, working on our tone, working on singing in a foreign language. That was Latin in case that didn't make any sense to you. Um, and u, we're going to do a little combination of
002a concert and an information night for you so you can kind of get an idea of what we do in chorus besides just sing and practice and perform for you. So, we're going to do both choirs are going to do a little demonstration of their learning. And we're going to start tonight with the Prelude Choir. And one of the things that we work on is learning to read music so that they don't have to depend on an adult to play the music for them and teach it to them by ear. They learn by actually reading the notes on the page. So, we use a system called Soulfetg, which you've probably heard of if you've ever seen the movie uh The Sound of Music, where they sing do a dear, a female deer. We do that,
003but we have hand signs. do rea. And I'm going to give you a little demonstration of what it would look like when we are warming up in the morning using our soulfish. Okay, we're going to do major first. [Music] So far, don't He's on the fire. So happy. [Music] We call that follow the bouncing hand. Um so thank you. Yes, that's hard to do. Um, so then we take it a step further and we've been working on learning about minor scales. So we're going to do the same thing but using a minor scale. So instead of do re me, it becomes dome and then fos instead of fossil law. So it'll sound quite different to you. minor. Ready? [Music] So faro mayo. [Music] Great job. Great job. Really hard. We also work on voice independence
004and trying to hang on to parts and hear pitches. So, we're going to sing for you one of our warm-up rounds. Um, this is called uh the coffee round and um we're going to start by singing all the words and then we slowly take words out and substitute some body percussion and then we turn it into a round. So, we'll sing it through four times. F. All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper coffee pot. I may offer coffee in a proper coffee pot. Iron coffee pots and coffee pots. They are no use to me. If I can't proper coffee, I'll have a cup of tea. All I want is a proper cup made in a proper cover. I may offer a proper pot and tin. They are no use
005to me. If I can't have a proper cup of tea in a proper cup of tea, all I want is a cup of [Music] I can't have a cup of tea. All I want is a cup of [Music] made. I may [Music] [Applause] cover. If I can't have a cup of tea, I'll have a cup of tea. So, that's just a little taste of what we do on a daily basis. Um, but we're going to move into our next song. Now, this is an old tune uh written by Honey Led Better called Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie. Um, we have three soloists listed in the program. Um, Lily Lord, Lily Peliter, and Casey Hos, but unfortunately Lily Peliter is sick tonight. So, Lily Lord and Casey made a quick shift just before we came out
006here. So, I'm very grateful to them for being flexible. And we also are going to add some percussion rhythm sections over here. On claw base, we have Amelia Buckley. We have Aiden Messier on Shakers. We have Mo Furbush on bass and Spencer Man on Jimbe. So, enjoy. Bring me a little water, Sylvie. Ready. One, two, three. [Music] Bring me little water, Sylvie. Bring me little water now. Bring me little water, Sie. every little once in a while. Bring it in a pocket. Bring it in a pocket now. Bring it in a pocket. Every little once in a while still become a running bucket in our head. She will bring a little water fast as she [Music] can. Bring me little water. Bring me a little water now. Bring me little water. Every little once in
007a while. Can't you see me coming? Can't you see me now? I will bring a little water every little once in a [Applause] [Music] while. Ooh. Ooh. [Music] Oh, bring me little water. Bring me little water now. Bring me little water. Every little once in a while [Music] little water. Every little once in a while. Once in a while. Won't you bring me a little water? A little drink little [Music] every little once in a while. Bring a little every little once in a while. Won't you bring a little bring a little? Every little on a while. Bring a little silly. Bring a little. Every little on. Won't you bring a [Music] little every little on? [Applause] Thank you very much. We're going to send these folks back to the upper section. You guys are
008going to go this way and have a seat. And we're going to bring the vocal ensemble and concert choirs down this way, please. Thank you. Thank you guys. You should be able to Relax. Sure. Come on. We'll have you right there. So in front of you we have our combined vocal ensemble and concert choir. And we're going to start this program with a magical which is sort of the pop music of the Renaissance. [Music] Sing we enchanted world la sing we enchanted world of granted [Music] [Applause] laure to take our pleasure [Music] la and all they tasture to take our [Music] la. All things invite us now to delight us. [Music] All things invite us to delight us [Music] laure to live in pleasure la and scare me No lacking that spare no treure to
009living. [Music] and we're going to slide forward a couple hundred years and uh sing to you a an arrangement of a traditional African-American spiritual called City Called Heaven. Um we have the very talented Alex Thompson on piano and we have three soloists. Uh the first is Jojo Chappella followed by Cece Murray and then Shannon Gity. This is City Called Heaven. One, two, three. One of the hill of sorrow. I left in this wide world. This wide world all got no hope. God's no hope for [Music] tomorrow. Trying to make it. Make heaven my home. I am a poor pilgrim. A poor pilgrim of [Music] sorrow. Is this so wide world? This whole wide world. Got no hope. Got no hope for tomorrow. I'm trying to make it make it sometimes I'm lost. I'm dreaming. [Music]
010Sometimes I just don't know which way to turn. Oh my heart of a city of a city called heaven. I'm trying to break it. Make him sometimes dream. [Music] Sometimes I just don't know which way to turn. My heart of city of city call heaven. I'm trying to make heaven my home. [Applause] The moment of truth has arrived. So, as I said in the uh the previous group when the uh prelude choir was up here, we work on literacy every day. We work on how to read music. So, we're going to put them to the test. Um you will see on the back of your uh program a little excerpt of music. Um Dean, is there any way we can bring the house lights up just a little so that they can really scrutinize what's
011about to happen? So, um I have handed out a paper with that exact little um excerpt on it for them of and they have not seen this before and I I'm you're going to have to just trust me on that. They have begged me to see it ahead of time and I have not allowed it. So, they don't know what they have in their hands right now, but we're going to sing that fourpart little chunk of music. It's only four measures, but it's still pretty impressive if they do it right. Um, and I'll ask them a few questions first. They'll have a little bit about 20 seconds of time to sort of work it out, and they use soulfetge to do that, and then we're going to try to sing it. Sometimes it works really
012well the first time. Sometimes it doesn't. So, you will get to see the real true reality of what happens in class. So, uh, we're going to ask a few questions first. So, my friends, looking at what you have there, where is the paper? I don't remember. Do you have an extra? Okay, thank you. All right, so friends, what major key are we in on the count of three? 1 2 3 F. And what is the relative minor of F major? D. Correct. Which are we in? F. You're so smart. Okay, so bases. Uh, let's all do a scale on F major first just to get in our brains. Ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] at bases are on do teners are on do altos sopranos. You've got 20 seconds. Go. [Music] Don't be so. [Music] All right,
013here goes nothing. Ready to centers [Music] out. Nice and slow. One and two and three. Go. [Music] I'll take that. That was pretty [Applause] good. Okay. Uh to further demonstrate um how important it is that we all contribute to the group, we're going to do a little another little experiment for you. Um, I have taught them u the first verse of a Bach corral. Um, that and singing four-part Bach music is tricky in and of itself, but we're going to sing it for you as you would normally expect to hear it. Um, we had a couple of kids count and we discovered that there are 249 notes in the song between all of the parts. So, we did some math or they did some math and we determined that if they sang 95% of the
014notes right, they could make 24 mistakes. 12 mistakes. 12 mistakes. So, we thought, hey, 5% is not bad, right? Because if you get a 95 in math, that's a pretty good score. So, we're going to sing it first the right way, then we're going to sing it with a 95%. I think you'll notice that there are some errors in here and um they we have pre-planted some errors so that that you will actually hear what it sounds like to have that many notes wrong. And then we're going to knock it down to between 1 and a half and 2%. And it's still at 98. That's an A+. But we're still not going to sound very good. And I think again you will notice even if we sing 98% of the notes correctly um and then
015we'll finally come back and sing them hopefully all correctly and you hopefully you will notice the difference. The point of this is that even if one person makes a mistake on a note or just a couple of people even if 98% of the notes are right it still affects the whole group and we have to work together to get everything just right and I get 100% of the notes. So we'll sing it for you four times. It's short. Once really well, we hope uh once 95% once 98% and then back to the way it should be too slow because we're going four times. [Music] One, two, three. Oh sacred head now wounded with grief and shame weigh down the [Music] least with thy crown. Thou art thou pale with anguish with sore abuse and scorn.
016How does that village languish which once bright? Here comes [Music] with down [Music] scornfully with I only crown. Oh Lord, thou hail [Applause] withuish with sore abuse and scorn. How does [Music] [Applause] that bright as 98% [Music] with grief and shame weigh down [Music] now with thy only How thou fail with anguish with sore abuse and scorn? How does that vageuish? [Applause] [Music] And now the way it should be. Oh s I'm wounded with grief and shame way down. Now scornfully surrounded with thorns thy holy crown. Thou art thou bail with anguish with sore use and scorn. How does that vage languish which once was bright as [Applause] morning? Um Sarah, can you just gather the model? And we're going to conclude this part of the program with a very contemporary piece. Um, it says
017with a funky groove at the beginning of the song. And I think you will find this a little funky. This is called connected. This is not yours. There's more just this part. [Music] One, two, three. I am you are me. That's what I said. I am you are me. Don't you see? I am. You are me. That's what I said. I am You are me. Don't you see? I am you are me. That's what I said. I am you are me. Don't you see? I am you are me. And you're over there. That's what I said. You are greater than Don't you see you over there? That's what I said. Something [Music] that's not hard to do. That's what I said. It's me and you. Don't you see the confusion? That's what I said. Me
018and you. Don't you see? [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Don't you see I am a part of you? You are a part of me. And together we are one body. I am inside your head. You are inside my heart. We sing together. Perfect from the start. I am. You are me. That's what I said. I am. You are me. [Music] Don't seem that confusion. It's not hard to do. That's what [Music] Iusion is not hard to do. [Applause] [Music] singong. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. And so together we are one body. I am inside your head. You are inside my heart. We get together. Perfect from the sun. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. And so together we are one body. I am inside
019your head. You are inside my heart. We've been together. Perfect from the start. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. And so together we are one body. I am inside your head. You are inside my heart. We together perfect from the start. Teners, you can take the chair and the stand and just push them to the side. Bases, if you can go that direction with Sopranos and altos, you're going to step off to the sides. Okay, we're going to do a brief reset here. I'm going to get out of the way. Okay. Teners and bases. We're out here. We're going to feature our teners. Oops. We're going to feature our teners and our bases. Um so if we can have the uh prelude choir guys come on down. Um, this
020tune is um called Northwest Passage and it's in the style of an old sea shanty. It's actually not that old. It was probably written in the last 20 or 30 years by a guy named Stan um Jennings, but it is um it's has that feel of being out at sea for a long time. Um, the story is about trying to find that elusive passage over the the north route to get from Europe over to Asia above the United States instead of going down south and through the the Panama Canal area. So, we're going to feature lots of soloists on this one. On the first line, we have Josh Smith. Let's see if I get this all right. Second is Evan Cooer and Ben Alman. And then we have Bobby Pace. And then we have Charles
021Morris. And then all the guys will take the fifth verse. And I think you're gonna really enjoy this. So this is for the two. You guys can come up to either one you want. Stand there. Look good. Okay. I would have figured that out. For just one time I would take the Northwest Passage to find the land of Franklin, reaching for the sea, tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage to make a northwest passage to the sea. Westward from the Davis straight is that was said to lie. The sea route to the orn for which so many died. Seeking gold and glory leaving weathered broken bones and a long forgotten lonely care of stone. Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage to find the hand of Franklin,
022reaching for the port sea, tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage to make a northwest passage to the sea. Three centuries thereafter I take passage over land in the footsteps of brave calc of flowers began watching cities rise before me then behind me sink again. tardiest explorer driving hard across the plane. Just one time I would take the northwest passage to find the land of reaching for the sea. facing one more line through a land so wide and savage to make a northwest passage to the sea and through the night behind the wheel of mileage clicking west. I think upon McKenzie, David Thompson and the rest who cracked the mountain ramparts and did carve a path for me to race the roaring Frasier to the sea. our just one time I
023would take the Northwest Passage to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the sea. Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage to make a northwest passage to the sea. How then am I so different from the first men through this way? Like them I left a settle with life I threw it all away to seek a northwest passage at the call of many men to find there but the road back home again. Just one time I would take the Northwest Passage to find the hand of Franklin. Reaching for the sea, tracing one more line through a land so wide and savage to make a northwest passage to the sea. And will it be I'll come again to love ones at home. Place the journals on the mantle. Make the frost out
024of my bones. Leaving memories far behind me. Only memories after all. And hardships and the hardest to recall. For just one time I would take the northwest passage to find the hand of reaching for the sea. Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage to make the northwest passage to the sea. [Music] So guys, you're going to go and wait over there super quietly. Well, we can't give the teners and bases a turn without giving the sopranos and altos. So, um, this is probably the first time I have ever done a song that I learned off of Tik Tok. Um, it is a great great tune that made the rounds on on on all the nerdy channels on Tik Tok. Um, it's called What Happens When a Woman Takes Power and it's
025just rocking. So, I hope that you enjoy our sopranos and Alto singing What Happens When a Woman Takes Power. I'm in front of the mic. So, step in front of the mic. See, I don't think we'll need that since we're so strong, right? Come all the way out here to make one big circle. No. Okay. So, let's do a little bit if you need to like stagger a little bit. Can you get in there? Mackenzie, you guys need to step forward. Make it a second line. We didn't have a chance to put this together with everybody on the stage yet. So, Everybody have room. You need this, right? [Music] Two, three, four. What happens when a woman takes power? What happens [Music] when a woman takes power? What happens? What happens? What happens when a
026woman takes power? What happens when she won't back down? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens? What happens? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens when she won't back down? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens? What happens? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens when she won't back down? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens when she crown? What happens when she grows her own body? What happens when she sets the she? What happens when she stands on her own two feet? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens when she won't back down? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens? What happens? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens when she won't back down? What happens when a
027woman takes power? What happens when she wears the crown? Oh, we rise above. We lead in the We have one. We are one. We just beun. Oh, we rise above. We leave. We have one. We are one. We just takes a woman back. What happens? What happens? What happens down? takes power. What happens? What happens? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens when she won't back down? What happens when a woman takes power? What happens? What happens? What happens? What happens? What happens when she crown? Go back up the risers for young. Okay. Okay. Tenders and bases. Come on back up. And for our final song tonight, we're going to combine all the choirs together. Um this is a a gulla tune called uh Yandere Comede. Gulla is a language spoken in the
028um islands off of the coast of Georgia. It's sort of a a mixture of um English and some African dialects all put together. Um but this comes from that tradition. It's called Yandere Come Day. And we're going to invite Spencer back out to play some percussion for us. Thank you very much for coming tonight. We hope that you'll join us to see Spongebob the musical which is happening here uh two weeks from now uh April. I believe it's 10 11 and 12. And then we'll do our annual Pops concert. For those of you that are used to our Pops concert, we're going to try it in the auditorium this year, which has the benefit of comfy seats and air conditioning. So, um, we hope that you will join us for that. That is May 21st.
029So, our final tune is Yonder Come Day. How we doing here? Hey teners, get your [Music] One, two, three. Come day. Y to come day. Sun is rising in my soul. Y come day. Y come day. Y to come day. Sun is rising in my soul. Y come day. Y come day. Sun is rising in my soul. Y come day breaking going to come day. Oh my soul to come days are breaking. Sun is rising in my soul. Y come days are breaking. Y to come day. Oh my soul to come days are breaking. Sun is rising in my soul. Sun is rising in my soul. Oh, it's a brand new day. Sun is rising. Brand new day. Day is a breaking day. It's a brand new day. And the sun is rising in my
030soul. Oh, the sun is rising in my soul. Come day. [Music] Sun is rising in my soul. Sun is rising in my soul. Sun is rising in my soul. It's a brand new day. Sun is rising. Brand new day. Day is a breaking day. Day. It's a brand new day. When the sun is rising in my soul. Oh, the sun is rising in my soul. Y come day and the day is breaking. Y come day and day is breaking. Sun is rising in my soul. Sun is rising in my soul. Y come day. Y come day. Day is breaking. Day is breaking. Y come day. Y come day. Sing oh my soul sing oh my soul day is a brand new day and the sun is rising in my soul you're a good [Music] day
031is rising in my [Applause] soul sun is arising in my [Applause] soul. Spencer and I'm very sorry I forgot to announce that Kate Colbertson and Andy Tuisan had solos in there. Can you give them a hand, please? Thank you. Thank you so much for coming tonight. We hope to see you at Spongebob and then again at the Pops concert. Have a great night. It's April tomorrow, folks. Yay.