As the winter season approaches, choir, band, and orchestra prepares for something Liberty has never done before. On Monday, December 16, the performing arts department will present their talents at an assembly during the school day.
The brain behind this assembly, choir teacher Erick Price, got the idea from Skyline High School, where a similar event has been a long-standing tradition.
“Skyline has an annual all-school assembly with a very similar format to this,” Price said. “I’ve always been jealous of their opportunity for their students to perform for the entire school.”
The performances will be split into three mini concerts during periods 5, 6, and 7 throughout the school day. Attending this assembly is optional, giving teachers flexibility in their schedule.
“Teachers will sign up to bring their classes to the assembly during those periods,” Price said. “It’s the last week before break, and we wanted to give teachers the option to opt in or out of the assembly depending on the roadmap of their curriculum.”
Each period will feature a performance from each music program. The performances in 6th and 7th period will differ from 5th period as it will showcase the advanced groups and a combined piece that brings the three programs together.
“The thing I’m excited about most is that we are doing a combined piece with band, orchestra and choir called ‘Sogno di Volare’, which is from the video game Civilization.”
The music department hopes for students and staff to experience parts of the program not seen before.
“It’s very beneficial for the student body at large to see the passions of other students, their skill levels, and overall experience the musical world that we live in every day, even though it may not be part of the audience’s daily lives,” Price said.
“The band gets a lot of opportunities to play for people, but they usually only see the pop music side of the band, which is only a small piece of what we do in class,” Liberty band teacher Jared Tanner said. “It’s exciting to let people in the school see what we really work on for most of the year.”
