MLHS Junior/Senior High Bands, Choirs in mid-March concert
The Junior High and Senior High Bands and Choirs Mountain Lake Public High School (MLHS) performed a line-up of powerful music in a Monday evening, March 16 concert in the school’s auditorium.
The concert’s theme – “The Power of Music” – tied in the celebration of March as “Music In Our Schools” month at Mountain Lake Public School.
Presenting selections were the Junior High Choir, Junior High Band, Senior High Choir and Senior High Band. Both of the Senior High music groups shared the numbers they performed at last Wednesday’s Large Group Contest. The choir received superior ratings on their songs, “The Ground from Sunrise Mass” and “Music, Lead the Way!,” while the band successfully presented a very difficult piece, “English Folk Song Suite,” that features first, a March, “Seventeen Come Sunday,” an Intermezzo, “My Bonny Boy” and closes with another March, “Folk Songs from Somerset.”
Director of Choirs is Andrea Brinkman, with Kurt Jahnke as Director of Bands.
Below is a photo gallery from the evening of music:
WITH EYES ON Junior High Choir Director Andrea Brinkman, front, these choir members add their voices in song. From left, Spencer Khamvongsa, Destiny Sybounheuan, Christina Hofmann, Jaylee Lugo and Carly Menken.
JUNIOR HIGH CHOIR basses. Front, Maleek Stewart and back, Sam Paulson, left and Drake Harder, right.
JUNIOR HIGH CHOIR sopranos, from left, Naly Sayavong, Jacquelyn Gonzalez and Katie Garza.
FLETCHER HANSON, LEFT and Josiah Gardiner, right, with a little “swing” in the son, “Swingin’ with the Saints,” a traditional spiritual performed by the Junior High Choir’s boys.
PLAYING SOME SWEET saxophone music with the Junior High Band is McKinley DeVries.
JUNIOR HIGH BRASS – trombonists Janessa Johnson, left and Taylor Naas, right.
PLAYING – AND WATCHING the director – are Junior High trumpets Brett Willaby, left and Jon Faber, right.
ADDING HIGH NOTES to the melody are Junior High flutists Emma Stade, left, and Kyla Perkins, right.
FOR THE SENIOR High Choir’s selection, “Riversong: A Celtic Celebration,” A Celtic Band accompanied the vocal number. Members of the band include, from left, on keyboard, Daniel Harder and Mountain Lake Public School’s Director of Bands Kurt Jahnke; on tambourine Caleb Rempel, on triangle, Hamlet Tanyavong and on drum set, Eric-John Niss De Jesus; on violin, Vicki Beckendorf; on guitar, Levi Jahnke and on flute, Caitlin Oeltjenbruns.
SENIOR HIGH CHOIR altos. Front, from left, Madison Schroeder, Jae Faber and Deaunna Carter-Finne. Back, from left, Callie Jaskon, Marta Stoesz and Meredith Suess.
THESE YOUNG GENTLEMEN are part of the bass section that provides the deep vocalization on the Senior High Choir’s numbers. From left, Ruben Fentanez, Ryan McCue, Nicholas Curry and Emmanuel Fentanez.
HITTING THE HIGH notes are these Senior High Choir sopranos. From left, Kaylee Wolle, Brook Sunderman, Samantha Stahl and Katherine Hofmann.
IT’S ALL ABOUT that bass – more bass – for the Senior High Choir. Left, Jack Wendt and right, Brodie Freeman.
DIRECTOR OF BANDS Kurt Jahnke, standing left, leads his Senior High Band charges in the presentation of their contest music. Instrumentalists pictured are, front, clarinets Daniel Harder, left and Karen Soutthivong, right and back, on saxophones, Jared Willaby, left and Samuel Hirsch, right.
SLIDING THROUGH THE songs together are the these Senior High Band trombonists. From left, Selvin Deleon-Loprx, Kaleb Haberman, Sam Xayanourom, Dylan Krueger, Liana Blomgren and Brianna Jensen.
THE DEEP NOTES OF the two two tubas played by Eric Wenner, left and Byron Franz, right.
PROVIDING TWO VARYING forms of percussion are Senior High Band members, Hamlet Tanyavong, left, on chimes and Eric-John Niss De Jesus, right, on timpani. Tanyavong added a third percussion instrument as well – the bells.
