The Stone Memorial High School choir and its booster club hosted a Christmas concert and an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast in the school cafeteria on Dec. 6, to raise money for this music program’s expenses.
Choir Director Blake Saldaña said, “This is the fourth year we have hosted the pancake breakfast at SMHS.”
“We generally raise money to pay for music, choral festival fees, travel, uniforms, and our piano accompanist. We also have students that participate in regional and state honor choirs, which is also paid for by the money that we raise.
“Our group is traveling to New York City next summer to perform at Carnegie Hall, so we are also raising money to pay for the trip.”
The parent volunteers from the booster club collected money and served more than 200 plates of breakfast in less than an hour.
Journey Houston performed a solo of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” and Cheyenne Graff followed with “Where Are You, Christmas?”
Tais LeBaron and Alung Tung sang solos in “I Saw Three Ships,” and Anna Kemmer and Jason Lambert sang in front of the choir during “O Holy Night.” The choir also performed “Ding Dong Merrily on High,” “Hush, My Babe,” “Angels We Have Heard on High,” “Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel, Joy to the World,” “We Three Kings of Orient Are” and “Carol of the Bells.”
The choir’s trip to New York City in June 2015, will be a joint performance with the Festival Chorale of Fairfield Glade, Tenn. Brian Bacon will direct the group in “Gloria” and “Te Deum.”