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Middle school concert blows away 50's rock Photos from the 5th and 6th grade Concert Photos from the 7th and 8th grade Concert
Seventh and eighth grade: Fifth and sixth grade:
Choral students at Hayesville Middle School rocked the Fifties Thursday evening May 22 during their annual spring concert.
Fifth grade students kicked off the concert with the "Chicken Dance" before sixth grade students arrived to sing "Come Let's Be Merry" and "Kyrie." The separate classes then fused on stage to perform "Bonse Aba," a traditional Zambian song, under the direction of their teacher Lindsey Cope. Students Rachel Moody, Kinsey Nelson and Caleb Nuckolls all contributed solos for the piece while Joey Garrett and Peyton Long provided percussion. The second song both choirs performed was a rendition of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" before sitting down on the stage to prepare for their next song: "God bless the USA." As the melody continued "I proudly stand up…", the students rose as one, pride for their country swelling within and showing in every voice. At the climax of the song one member of the choir left the throng and drew the American flagfrom its stand on the side of the stage, waving it above the crowd as the voices behind him continued. The audience of family, friends and teachers stood, unable to sit any longer through the patriotic display.
Their final performance was a clever and creative medley titled "Back to the Fifties."
Cope said that her students went to the Middle School Choral Festival at Western Carolina University and that all three songs earned "Superior" ratings from the judges, including a score of 99. Student Rachel Moody was selected by the North Carolina's Honor Chorus in Winston-Salem. Caleb Nuckolls and Emily Curam were both recognized for their participation in the N.C. All-State Chorus. After the intermission, choral director Leslie Setzer introduced the seventh and eighth grade choirs. With the help of accompanist Suzanne Major on the piano, the choir sang two songs they had achieved a score of 100 from a judge on at a recent contest at Western Carolina University, Setzer said. She said that in 26 years of teaching she had never had a group achieve that milestone until now.
The first was the choir's traditional "God is Our Refuge." The second was "The River Sleeps Beneath the Sky."
Setzer then recognized two 7th and 8th grade students who performed in the N.C. Honors Chorus: Kyle Moss and Samuel Mull. She also gave awards to N.C. All-State Chorus members in her choir: Jesse Somervell, Caroline Kelly, Alley Cothren, Rachel Pearl and Moss. In a musical style reverse, the second half of the program, "Rockin' America," brought student narrators Haley Maddox and Shea McCoy, who mastered the microphone to update the audience on the history of rock while various groups performed elaborately choreographed musical numbers to life. Soloists Jesse Somervell, Chelsea Oliver and Mikayla Turner each delivered effectively strong contributions to the songs, enhancing the finger-snapping tunes churned out by their classmates. E-mail Harrison at hkeely@ smokymountainsentinel.com.
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