{"id":903,"date":"2017-12-24T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=903"},"modified":"2018-07-24T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:25:11","slug":"pingry-music-joins-together-at-ensembles-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/12\/24\/pingry-music-joins-together-at-ensembles-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Pingry Music Joins Together at Ensembles Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Grace Wang (III)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

During the week before Thanksgiving break, four of the school\u2019s musical groups performed in this year\u2019s Ensembles Concert. The concert consisted of the strings ensemble, the Buttondowns, the Balladeers, and the jazz band. <\/span><\/p>\n

The concert took place in a transformed senior area, where the senior couches were replaced with chairs and benches for the audience. Faculty, friends, and family stood and sat from the library balconies all the way down to the senior area. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The strings ensemble set the tone for the concert, beginning with \u201cAshokan Farewell\u201d by Jay Ungar with strings teacher Ms. Vera Izano playing alongside her middle and high school students. A few select students performed Beethoven\u2019s String Quartet No. 4, namely, Rebecca Lin (VI) and Felicia Ho (V) on the violin, Ethan Chung (VI) on the cello, and Ms. Izano and Jessica Li (VI) on the viola. The strings ensemble then finished off their performance with an arrangement of Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms, with Head of the Music Department Dr. Andrew Moore accompanying on the piano.<\/span><\/p>\n

The strings ensemble was followed by a combined performance by the Balladeers and the Buttondowns. The two groups joined to sing a moving rendition of \u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d arranged by Mark Hayes and \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d arranged by Kirby Shaw. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Balladeers continued the performance, wearing their signature black dresses and purple sashes around their waists. The Balladeers\u2019 performance was coordinated by music teacher Mr. Jay Winston. The a cappella group arranged themselves in a semi-circle and sang \u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d arranged by Balladeers president Maya Huffman (VI). Ashana Makhija (IV) sang the starting solo, and Nicole Gilbert (IV), Isabel Devito (V), and Anna Wood (VI) joined in with their own solos throughout the song. The Balladeers then sang \u201cThe Seal Lullaby\u201d by Eric Whitacre and ended with \u201cFireflies,\u201d also arranged by Maya Huffman, with soloist Nina Srikanth (IV).<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the Balladeers, the Buttondowns continued the concert with the traditional Korean folk song \u201cArirang,\u201d arranged by Brad Printz, with guest soloist Alyssa Chen (VI) on the flute. The group then took on the pop song \u201cJust the Way You Are,\u201d arranged by former Buttondown James Robertson \u201917 and the current Buttondowns president Jonathan Huang (VI), with strong solo performances by Rajeev Doraswamy (V) and Ian Dugan (V). They then concluded their part of the concert with \u201cDeath of a Bachelor\u201d by Panic! At the Disco, arranged by Jonathan Huang, who also was the featured soloist. Alex Kaplan (III), Nolan Baynes (III), Ian Dugan (V) and others took on supporting parts in the song. <\/span><\/p>\n

The performance concluded with the jazz band directed by music teacher Mr. Sean McAnally. The ensemble performed the songs \u201cRed Clay\u201d by Freddie Hubbard, \u201cStop\u201d arranged by Sean McAnally, and \u201cBetter Get It In Your Soul\u201d by Charles Mingus, all of which frequently featured improvisations by different members of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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