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Xavier High School
Metro-Catholic Choral Festival
The high participation in Xavier’s choir program stems from the many feeder schools’ choir programs. Once a year, Xavier hosts the Metro-Catholic Choral Festival, a concert that celebrates the Catholic tradition in music. Xavier choirs joined forces with Regis, La Salle and St. Joseph’s middle school choirs. This year the concert was held on Monday, February 25. Before the choirs joined in the gym for the concert, they gathered in the theater and ran through their songs for about four hours and did other upper level singing drills. In the theater, the high school students were spread out throughout the middle schoolers to help them with
Meghan Gerke Photo The area’s Catholic middle schools and Xavier’s choirs join to perform their song “Requiem,” conducted by Mr. Walker. their music. Junior Haley Jensen is a member of Women’s Chorale. “I think this concert is more fun because all the middle schoolers get to be in it and see what high school choir is really like,” Jensen said.
At 7:30 p.m., the concert started with a piece entitled “Festival Sanctus”. After this, the individual high school and middle school choirs sang the pieces they prepared. La Salle and St. Joseph’s were first, followed
by Regis, and then finally the Xavier Choirs. Then all of the choirs joined in singing their final two pieces, “Requiem” and “Music Down in my Soul”. “The high school and middle school students worked well together, and we got a lot accomplished in a short period of time,” Matt Walker, Xavier’s head choir director, said. The Xavier choirs will perform at their spring concert on May 6. To find out more information about the Vocal Department and the upcoming events, go to the Xavier website.
Meghan Gerke A&E Writer
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