BWHS Spring Concert; superior, anytime, any place

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Big Wal­nut High School music stu­dents drew a stand­ing room only crowd dur­ing last Wednesday’s Spring Con­cert in the high school audi­to­rium; and even before the choir began singing, they were, as they always are, impressive.

Open­ing the evening, mem­bers of the Big Wal­nut High School Choirs, under the direc­tion of Choir Direc­tor Lisa Hus­ton and Assis­tant Choir Direc­tor Craig Porter, per­formed seven arrangements.

The evening began with Scar­bor­ough Fair, arr. Roger Emer­son, fol­lowed by Who Knows? (Where the Wind Blows) by Joseph M Mar­tin (a Mixed Choir Dis­trict Required Piece & State Select), and the The Craw­dad Song by Greg Gilpin and fea­tur­ing solos by Nate Fagan and Con­nor Killinger with piano accom­pa­ni­ment by Zac Moore.

Axel F, arr. Deke Sharon, was per­formed by the BWHS Vocal Jazz Select Ensem­ble, fol­lowed by On My Way To Jor­dan by Jay Alt­house with vocal solos by Abel Walker and Olivia Beck­ett and a snare drum solo by Sam Nance.

Man In The Mir­ror, arr. Kirby Shaw, fea­tured solos by Thomas Hamann and Josh Schirtzinger, and the choir per­for­mance con­cluded with Let Me Ride by Garry A. Cornell.

Fol­low­ing a brief inter­mis­sion to rearrange the stage, mem­bers of the Big Wal­nut High School Sym­phonic Band per­formed. Porter and Hus­ton switched roles, with Porter serv­ing as Band Direc­tor and Hus­ton serv­ing as Assis­tant Band Director.

The Sym­phonic Band opened with Alchemy by Gary Gack­stat­ter (a District/State Select Piece), fol­lowed by A Song of Loud­est Praise by Andrew Boy­sen (a State Required Piece), and then per­formed Procla­ma­tions by Rob Romeyn (another District/State Select Piece).

Clos­ing the evening the com­bined choir and band per­formed Jay Bocook’s arrange­ment of Don’t Stop Believin’.

Dur­ing both the choir and band por­tions of the pro­gram, Porter and Hus­ton rec­og­nized grad­u­at­ing seniors.

Grad­u­at­ing 2011-12 Band Seniors are: Martha Arbo­gast, KT Berger, Andrew Bowen, Mark Boyce, Sarah Braven­der, Nici Bregel, Rachel Dar­ling, Nate Fagan, Mar­cus Lacy, Thomas Lan­ning, Ash­leigh Mills, Nathan Ran­dall, Kristin Rob­bins, Maria Sagan, Abby Sny­der, Melissa Staugh, Jes­sica Stay­ton, Selena Stew­art, Nicole Thomas and Daniel Violet.

Grad­u­at­ing 2011-12 Choir Seniors are: Katie Bearss, Hanna Bergman, Nici Bregel, Ebony Brown, Tyler Burks, Phillip But­ler, Cas­sidy Combs, Beka Con­klin, Becca Crist, Gar­rett Dan­drea, Nate Fagan, Corey Gib­son, Jason Grif­fith, Abi­gail Guerra, Ash­ley Hol­land, Macy Hanawalt, Drew Har­mon, Brit­tany Hol­ley, Saman­tha Humphries, Traci Ish­ler, Nicole John­son, Con­ner Jones, Ali Kelly, Con­nor Killinger, Mar­cus Lacy, Rachel Lyon, Miranda Mann, Alexan­dria May­hew, Ash­leigh Mills, Con­nor Moran, Kali Pace, Ken­neth Purner, Kristin Rob­bins, Maria Sagan, Patrick Sewalk, Krystina Stacy, Melissa Staugh, Emma Swys­good, Daniel Vio­let, Cory Wal­ters and Ash­ley Watts.

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion about the BWHS Band go to < bigwalnutband.com >, for infor­ma­tion about the BWHS Choir log on to < bwhsvocalmusic.org >, and for BWHS Music Boost­ers infor­ma­tion go to < bigwalnutmusic.org >.

Posted by Gary Henery on May 23 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.