County Chorus brings students from across districts together

By A. J. Treible

County Chorus is a yearly event that gathers a select few singers from the different schools around the county for a day-long event of practicing songs and performing in a later evening concert. The participants in this concert are Panther Valley, Lehighton, Weatherly, Jim Thorpe, and Palmerton, the host for this year’s concert.

It is a long day, arriving at the school for 8 a.m. and practices begins at 8:30 a.m. There are nearly eighty students who arrive along with the guest conductor, Eduardo Azzati, a professor from Moravian College. Performers begin with simple warm-ups and a run through of all of the songs. After several hours of practice with the full group, the concert is finally ready. The concert consists of eleven pieces including two Latin, a French, and a German piece along with two college leveled songs. The composers range from Handel to the Beatles. The concert ended with a standing ovation and an encore of the Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four.”