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OAKLAND — It is impossible to forget how amazing it is to see “Messalonskee High School Chamber Singers” on the Playbill of Carnegie Hall.
This year’s performance will mean that more than 150 fifty MHS students can say that they’ve performed at the world-famous hall. The first group was invited to sing there in 2001, followed by others in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and the present group singing there this academic year.
In April of 2020, an auditioned group of 30bstudents representing the 100-voice MHS Concert Chorus will spend several days in New York City. They will work several hours each day preparing the music under the supervision of the director of choral studies at Charleston University, Robert Taylor.
“This unique experience will impact our student’s musical lives in a deeply profound way,” said choral director Kevin Rhein. “They will not meet many others in their lifetimes that will have shared that stage. Many of their families will be able to attend the performance at one of our country’s finest performance venues.”
Alumna Kirsha Finemore said, “I am so privileged and proud to have gone to Carnegie Hall with such talented, hard working musicians. We were like a family. I am so excited to have experienced music like I never had before.”
The schedule will be packed full so that the students will get to experience as much of New York as they can. Dinners at restaurants like Ellen’s Stardust Diner, complete with singing waiters and waitresses, will be followed by Broadway Shows.
Central Park, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a visit to the top of the Empire State Building and a cruise past the Statue of Liberty will be other highlights of the trip. But nothing can compare to the thrill of culminating all the hard work of preparing the music for the concert accompanied by a professional orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
“What an unforgettable, unmatchable ending to my high school music career,” said Finemore. “Performing at Carnegie Hall was an experience I will carry with me for the rest of my life, and I still can’t believe it really happened.”
