Sun Valley High & School Choral Arts Program
Presents
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2025 Preview Concert
Sun Valley High School Auditorium | Monday, March 10th, 7:00PM
Hello and welcome!
Hello and welcome!
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome you to our 2025 MPA Preview Concert! Tonight is a chance for you to see and hear the incredible progress our students have made.
Before we begin, just a few friendly notes to help everyone enjoy the evening:
Digital Program: You can find tonight's program by scanning the QR codes posted around the auditorium.
Recording: We'll be capturing this performance on video. While we appreciate you wanting to record your own memories, we kindly ask that you refrain from posting those videos on social media due to copyright.
Applause: To keep the musical flow going, please join us in applauding after Mr. Calpo lowers his hands at the end of each piece.
Coming and Going: If you need to step out or return during the concert, please do so between pieces, during the applause. Our auditorium doors can be a little noisy, so please open and close them gently.
Our Youngest Fans: If you've brought little ones who might be inspired to join the singing, please feel free to use the lobby.
Silent Phones: Please take a quick moment to silence your phones. We want everyone to be able to fully experience the beautiful music.
We have poured their hearts into preparing these pieces over the past six weeks. Next Wednesday, they'll be performing these same selections at Wingate University for their Music Performance Adjudication (MPA). Tonight, you're getting an exclusive sneak peek at what we've been working so hard on!
PROGRAM ORDER
PROGRAM ORDER
Sun Valley High School Choral Arts Program
Presents
2025 PREVIEW CONCERT
2025 PREVIEW CONCERT
Aj Calpo, High School Director
Philip Biedenbender, Accompanist
Come Travel with Me
by Scott Farthing
Nine Hundred Miles
by Philip E. Slivey
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
by Roger Emmerson
Emerald Stream
by Seth Houston
Time
by Jennifer Lucy Cook
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
by Mark Hayes
Sun Valley High School Alma Mater
SPECIAL THANKS
SPECIAL THANKS
All Parents and Caregivers, for supporting their child in the choral arts.
Financial Supporters, for helping us keep a high standard of choral excellence.
Dr. Mike Harvey, for his constant support of the high school choral program.
Mr. Dareion Malone, for working with the students and guidance.
Mr. Philip Biedenbender, for his friendship and support.
Choral Ambassadors, for their great leadership and dedication.
SUN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL SINGERS
SUN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL SINGERS
Robert Barrett
Nakiya Bell
Da'ziyah Britton
Heidy Castillo Cuadra
Christofer Castillo-Cuadra
Camila Cortez Zuniga
Gabriel Craig
Leonna Crawford
Allison Crigler
Brooklyn Dixon
Olivia Duldulao
Braiden Elsby
Anthony Gaete
Zion Germain
Manuela Gomez
Nevaeh Hedrick
Marissa Helms
Alexis Hudson
Jordan Hume
Isabella Ikpelue
Sa'mya Jackson
Langstyn Johnson
Keila Juarez-Ruiz
Jayden Lanzillotti
Iyonna Lindsey
Caydence Loflin
Alan Luna
Jaelynn McCrimmon
Sarah Mimy
Kya Palmer
Kendall Parsons
Jakayla Perry
Richard Peterson
Megan Rabon
Alexander Sakovich
Ayva Serrano
Lianna Shaulis
Julio Solivan
Noah Stoddard
Alexia Toney
Alyvia Valles
Quinton Wolf
WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO!
WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO!
Spring semester
Spring semester
Perform in front of the entire school for our revival of "Rooted In Resilience" assembly, celebrating Black History Month.
A few students performed André Thomas' Mass: Celebration of Love and Joy with the Charlotte Master Chorale and their High School Choral Festival.
WHY MUSIC? - WHY CHORUS?
WHY MUSIC? - WHY CHORUS?
Music Is a Science:
It is exact and it demands exact acoustics. A musical score is a chart, a graph, which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with exact control of time.
Music Is Mathematics:
It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music Is Foreign Language:
Most music terms are in Italian, German or French and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developed a kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music are the most complete and universal language.
Music Is History:
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and cultural feelings.
Music Is Physical Education:
It requires coordination of fingers, hands, arms, and muscles in the mouth, cheeks, back, stomach, and chest. These must respond instantly to successfully produce the sound for ears to hear and for minds to interpret.
Music is all these things but most of all….
Music Is ART!:
It allows the human being to use all these dry techniques to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate, math cannot calculate, language cannot express, and history cannot truly record. Humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will-it is what makes life worth living!
That is why we teach music! That is why we teach chorus!
Not because we expect you to major in music, but so you will recognize beauty in the world around you, have something to cling to when everything else is changing, and have more love, more compassion, more grace, and more joy; in short more LIFE!
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