NAHS Choral Department is Back!

Our first full month of school has come to a close, and things in the Nazareth Choral Department are looking a bit different from last year. After a year in the LGI, we are finally back in room 322! For some, this is their first time in the chorus room, and for others they are returning to the room they grew to know and love. The theme for the chorus room is the Chinese Lunar New Year. Thanks to senior Henry Grimm for some great decorations! 

While the days of switching locations every thirty minutes are gone, we are still utilizing the outdoor classroom. Being outside allows us to sing without masks on (if students feel comfortable with this), which is huge for improving vocal technique. It’s also nice to be able to see everyone’s faces again! Another big change is the return of five day weeks. Readjusting back to going to school every day hasn’t been easy, but it is all worth it to finally be able to sing all together as a group again. Last year, Mrs. Rocchi saw half of her classes just once every week, but this year we all get to sing with each other every other day. More class time also means less time practicing and learning music on our own outside of school, and we’ve luckily been able to escape the all too familiar video recordings we became accustomed to last year. 

    All of the choirs have already begun working on their repertoire for the Holiday Prism Concert, as well as the January Winter Concert. The Nightingales have been brushing up on their casual repertoire because soon enough we will return to regularly singing for nursing home residents in person! We made our first trip to Moravian Hall Square on October 18th, where we got to perform outside for some of the residents. We all enjoyed singing for a live audience again, and it seemed like the residents and staff enjoyed it as well. Aside from our concerts and nursing home visits, the Choral Department has a few other gigs lined up for this fall and winter, a big change from last year. We are all looking forward to bringing music back into the community this year, and we can’t wait to sing for you again! 

Check out the following dates for some of our upcoming performances!

All Choirs - Prism Concert- December 8th and 9th

Cantus and Nightingales - Christkindlmarkt - December 17th from 1:00 - 2:00 PM

All Choirs - Winter Concert - January 11th

Nazareth Night at the Lehigh Valley Phantoms (Cantus will sing the National Anthem!) - April 1st

All Choirs - Spring Concert - May 12th

Emma Higton, Choral Department Historian

Spring Time Is Here And The Concerts Are Near!

The choir students have been very busy these past couple of months. The winter concert is wrapped up, and was posted on Mrs. Rocchi's Youtube Channel (be sure to check it out!) https://youtu.be/vv32JxTy60c 

Now, everybody has been in preparation for the upcoming Pops Concert and the Spring Concert. The theme for this years Pops Concert is "Places" and the choirs are putting some wonderful pieces together! We are so grateful that we will be able to perform in front of an audience for this Pops Concert. This year, each student will be allowed to invite two guests that will all socially distance in the high school auditorium. Due to everything going on in the world right now, we are thrilled to be singing in front of an audience once again! A huge thank you to our Principal, Mr. Davis and Superintendent, Dr. Riker for this wonderful opportunity!

The Spring Concert is right around the corner and will be here before we know it! Mrs. Rocchi has been doing so much to get her students involved with this concert, and the preparations are coming together, beautifully. During our many snow days, Concert Choir and the Nightingales had a few Zoom calls together to pitch ideas to really bring the Spring Concert to life this year. The students have been hard at work, and we are so excited to share it with everyone very soon! Senior, Arianna Casner, took it upon herself to reach out to the arts department to see if they would like to be included in making art to be displayed at the Spring Concert, and they said yes! For the past two weeks, students have been submitting beautiful works of art with the prompt, "What does music mean to you?". The pieces of art are now hanging on the cafeteria windows for students to see as they walk down the halls. 

We are so excited to share our performances with you in the very near future! Stay tuned, and remember to subscribe to Mrs. Rocchi's YouTube Channel for our performances so far this school year! 

Also a huge congratulations to Caroline Hunter, Henry Grimm, and Paige Horvath for auditioning into the 2021 All-State Chorus! We are so proud of you three! 

No worries -- Henry got a balloon too!