The band and orchestra will have a concert on Wednesday, March 24th at 7:00 pm. The orchestra will perform in the Wagner Room and the band will perform in the Lapham Auditorium. The band will play Amen, Ireland of Legend and Lore, and American Elegy. Frank Ticheli, who composed American Elegy, came in earlier this year to communicate his vision and coach the band on this piece. The Jazz Band will also perform Roll ‘Em, After All, and Feet Bone. The orchestra will feature their bass section in particular and perform Romanze and Scherzo from Symphony 4, Concertro for Strings, Finale from the Classical Symphony, Basses Loaded, and Moondance.
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Closing performance of The Mystery of Edwin Drood on Saturday
Due to inclement weather and widespread power outages throughout town, the closing performance of The Mystery of Edwin Drood is rescheduled to Saturday, March 20th at 7:30 pm (a week after the original closing date). Any tickets purchased for Saturday, March 13th are transferrable to the final performance.
Undercover Artists offer perspectives on their work
Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
We’ve all been forced to endure the clichéd melodrama of Disney’s High School Musical. Troy Bolton, the star Basketball player and all-around jock, cultivates a newfound love for – gasp – singing. Cheesy as the trite storyline may be, many “Troy Boltons” secretly walk among us in the hallways. They are the undercover artists…
The Mystery of Edwin Drood commercials
Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
The Drama Department has put together its “most innovative PR scheme yet” to build excitement for its upcoming production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. For the first time, the department has worked with NCTV to produce nine commercials in which eight faculty members get to try out their acting skills as the leading players in the show “murder” them one by one. Life size pictures of the principle characters have also been speckled throughout the school to encourage students to pick their favorite suspect in the onstage “whodunit” mystery.Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
The Drama Department has put together its “most innovative PR scheme yet” to build excitement for its upcoming production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. For the first time, the department has worked with NCTV to produce nine commercials in which eight faculty members get to try out their acting skills as the leading players in the show “murder” them one by one. Life size pictures of the principle characters have also been speckled throughout the school to encourage students to pick their favorite suspect in the onstage “whodunit” mystery…
Drood takes musicals to new heights
Francesca DeRosa
Reporter
This year’s winter musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, will be the first NCHS production in which the actors literally take to the air.
Though it lasts only briefly, a few members of the cast will be hoisted into the air by a system of pulleys, which are manned by a troop of athletic students recruited especially for the purpose. The scene is played out with graceful somersaults and a lot of effort by the crew pulling the ropes…