SSHS and TMS Concert “Warms your Heart”

The Final music concert of the season for Soda Springs High School and Tigert Middle School, “Once Upon a Snowy Spring,” was held at the Soda Springs High School auditorium last week under the direction of Kimberly Mumford (Choir, Band, Drama) and Debbie Hansen (Strings).  The concert, which lasted a bit over an hour, brought together all of the various musical programs under one roof, and ended with a combined musical send off.  Many of the participants in the concert will be attending the Independence Day parade in Washington, D.C. later in the summer.

The music represented a number of different styles and selections, from pop song arrangements like Leonard Cohens’ “Hallelujah” and Elvis’ “I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You” to film performance numbers like “Campfire Song Number” from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” to folk numbers like “Russian Sailor’s Dance” and even modern classical numbers like John Williams’ “America—The Dream Goes on”.  The performance also represented a range of skill and experience levels, with beginning students performing at the end of the first year with an instrument to seniors soon to graudate sharing the same stage for the group numbers that finished out the night. 

The concert involved the play of the “Can We Go Outside?” Choir from Tigert Middle School grades 5-8, the “No Strings Attached Orchestra” grades 5 and 6, the “Do We Need Our Instruments Today?” Band grades 5 and 6, the “Goodbye to Middle School Orchestra grades 7 and 8, the “Most Unlikely Bunch of Campers” Musical Theatre Class, the “Senior String Stars” SSHS String Ensemble, the POPZZZ “We are in Everything Choir”, The “Can’t Wait to Graduate” High School Band” and the Soda Springs “Synergy” Band grades 7
through 12.

The chance to see a combination of choir, orchestra, and band group performances was wonderful, as was the chance to see the talent on display from the students who had spent a long year practicing for the moment.