Choir held their spring concert – their final performance of the year before their pop concert, a more laid-back season where students sing songs from pop culture – on March 12 in the auditorium. Spring concert is the “final stretch” for the hard-working season for choir students as they perform an array of different pieces in their uniform concert black, ranging from fast, powerful, loud pieces to slower-paced love songs.
While the theme for this particular concert was “All You Need is Love,” Liberty Choirs made space for many different emotions and concepts in the auditorium that Tuesday night. However, the main focus of the concert was “love,” and each choir sang many songs with different styles that tie back to this theme.
There are five choirs and each gets their time to shine on stage, from the combinations of Baritone, Concert and Treble choirs, and their individual performances, or the soprano-alto songs of Select Treble Choir, or mixed choir songs from Chamber Choir. No matter your grade or choir, all students got their time to sing as one.
“What I love about choir is how all the classes are separate, but we all come together to rehearse and perform. It’s like one big family,” Sophia Frerichs (10) said.
Frerichs is a member of the Select Treble choir, which performed three different pieces individually and then joined with the other choirs for two more songs.
“I’m split on (which song was my favorite),” Frerichs said. “‘Cikala Le Pong Pong’ was fun because we are all together on that song, but I think my favorite was ‘O Love,’ because it’s so emotional. It was cool because they were diverse. One crazy powerful song and then a slow one.”
Sebastian Tabers (12) of Chamber Choir also commented on his favorite song of the evening.
“My favorite song from my choir that I sang was ‘Love in the Stillness,’ a song the choir made themselves that was very heartfelt,” Tabers said. “Love in the Stillness” will be recorded by Chamber Choir in the near future, and will be released on streaming platforms under the LHS Choirs artist name.
Despite being involved in different choirs, both singers agreed that the concert was an emotional experience, and with spring on the rise it made for an eventful evening full of singing as one voice.
