On Wednesday, March 15, Poly had a choir concert at Cal Heights Methodist Church. The night began with Chorale singing “My Girl” and two other songs. Next, Cecilian started their set with a processional where they walked up to the stage while singing, then sang a jazz piece and one more.
Chamber sang three songs, one in Latin, one in French, and an African hymnal. Jazz Two sang an a cappella ballad and two others with one that featured Claudette Maloles. Jazz One then sang three songs, featuring Morgan Luke and Joe Pham and scat solos from Lan Nguyen, Abbie Hage, and Claudine Maloles.
On Thursday, March 9, the Inspirational Glee, a beginning level group, and Grace choir, which is the more advanced group, put on a stunning vocal performance in the Poly choir room.
As sophomore Tajahnai Clemons said, “We did good because during rehearsals we did not put as much effort as we did so the teacher did not think we would do as good as when we performed but everyone was clapping so we felt proud because eventually we achieved what we wanted to.”
There were also soloists at the concert, but each soloist only sang a verse from a song. The song “Baby”, which was originally composed by the R&N artist Ashanti, was performed by senior Jasmine Castelo.
Castelo said, “I sang a solo to ‘Baby,’ but just the first verse because other people sing different verses… I felt good about it, I think I could have done better, but I was a little nervous.”
Choir director Brian Dokko was pleased with his students,, “The concert was great!”
The next and final concert will be held on June 1.
The entire music program is hopeful that the last concert of 2016-2017 school year will be held in the Poly Auditorium, which has been under construction for quite some time.