The W.T. Clarke High School Spring Concert showcased the wide scope and versatility of the talent being developed in the East Meadow School District with performances from the jazz ensembles I and II, women’s choir, mixed chorus and chamber orchestra.
The women’s choir set the tone for the evening with their spot-on rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Following were the jazz ensembles, both directed by Steve Barbieri, who performed brilliantly in tandem, on numbers such as Ray Ortiz’s “Mambo Loops” and Jeff Jarvis’s “Critical Mass.”
The women’s choir, directed by Robin Hall and accompanied by Amanda Hall, opened their set with a perky vocalization of Don Raye and Hughie Prince’s “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and closed with an exciting interpretation of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge over Troubled Water.”
The chamber orchestra, directed by Adrianna Donovan, played four songs, including the familiar strains of J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins – Vivace, featuring soloists Jordi Ariel Lotito and Daniel Wang. They finished their set with Louis Prima’s “Sing, Sing, Sing.”
The mixed chorus, also directed by Robin Hall and accompanied by Amanda Hall, closed out the show with four songs, including Brian Lewis’s “I Hope You Dance” and Jack Feldman and Alan Menken’s “Seize the Day” from the current Broadway show “Newsies.” They also combined with the chamber octet for their performance of Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618.
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