EHS Chamber Singers Travel to NYC, Delaware
Group joins St. Andrew's and Tower Hill schools in Wilmington concert
February 9, 2009
This month, 23 EHS students traveled to New York and Delaware as members of the EHS Chamber singers. The group's first stop, in New York City, included sight-seeing in the city and a Broadway show.
On Sunday, Feb. 1, the group sang during a service at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Midtown; that afternoon, they traveled to St. Andrew's School in Delaware.
On Monday, the group sang at a retirement home in Middleton, Del., and rehearsed and performed with the St. Andrew's School Choral Singers and the Choir from Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Del. That evening's performance honored composers with anniversaries this year: Felix Mendelssohn, Henry Purcell, George Frederic Handel and Franz Jospeh Haydn.
Art Teacher Elizabeth Vorlicek, one of the chaperones for the trip, said that the tour "was a wonderful opportunity to see our students share a part of their hearts with the community outside of our school: singing to the congregation at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, line dancing with a group of enthusiastic senior citizens in Middletown, Del., and joining two other choirs for a Choir Festival at the St. Andrew's School."
She was proud of the students, she added, and their "tireless ability to bring their art into the world through song."
