Mountain View High School Chorale and Orchestras to Perform Free Concert at Carnegie Hall, 2/24

The MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL CHORALE AND ORCHESTRAS are nationally recognized ensembles enjoying their debut concert performing works by Samuel Barber, Ernest Bloch, P. I. Tchaikovsky, Antonio Vivaldi, and more on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 7:00pm at Carnegie Hall (881 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019).

Tickets are FREE but must be reserved in advance at www.musiccelebrations.com/mountain-view-carnegie-hall or by calling 1-800-395-2036.

Bring your family and friends to Carnegie Hall for free and enjoy a great concert featuring the world-renowned students from Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona.

The Chorale is comprised of 81 singers, approximately 10 voices on each part. The ensemble is highly select and includes many well rounded students, including artists, athletes, student council officers, scholars, actors, and instrumental musicians. The Chorale has recently toured Northern Arizona and Northern California, recording at such sites as Trinity Episcopal Church, Pasadena United Methodist Church and Skywalker Studios on George Lucas' estate. They also were one of three choirs in the world invited to sing at the 200th anniversary of the death of composer Franz Joseph Haydn in Vienna Austria in 2009.

The Mountain View Chamber Orchestras have built a reputation of performance excellence throughout Arizona and the Southwest since the school opened in 1976. Over the last 19 years, the program has grown from two to five orchestras giving its 200 plus strings students a comprehensive orchestral experience. The orchestra program at Mountain View features two training orchestras and three festival orchestras. Of these, the Symphony regularly performs works from the standard symphonic literature and the Chamber Orchestra is highly acclaimed internationally for its performances at major performances festivals. The orchestras have performed twice (2001, 2010) at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, honor performances (2003, 2005,2009, 2010, 2014) at the Arizona Music Educators Association In-Service Conference, as well as international orchestra festivals in Russia (2006) and Austria (2009).

Choir Repertoire

Musik's Empire Lloyd Pfautsch

Fergus and Molly Vijay Singh

She Who Makes Her Meaning Known Joan Szymko

Super Flumina Babylonis Palestrina

Kalinda Sydney Guillaume

John Saw Duh Numbuh Robert Shaw and Alice Parker

Nyon Nyon Jake Runestad

Chamber Orchestra

Souvenir de Florence (movement 1), P. I. Tchaikovsky

Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber

Symphony Strings

Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus, R. Vaughan Williams

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra with Piano Obligato (select movements), Ernest Bloch

Choir and Orchestra Combined:

Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi