Singing a graduation tune
Posted on May 23, 2014 by Azniv Derdzakyan in News
Azniv Derdzakyan
Julie Contreras
Chronicle Reporter
Class of 2014 is coming to a musical end. Performers have been chosen to sing the national anthem and the class song for June 2nd, graduation day.
On Monday , May 19 students auditioned for these positions. The judges were assistant principal Dr. Travis Brandy, music director Robert Sexton, PAM counselor Elizabeth Payne, and EL coordinator Graciela Quintanilla. They used the Hollywood Idol judging scale. It was their opinion which based the performers on a scale from 1-5.
All judges are excited. Payne said, “As every year we are expecting it to be a great performance.”
For the national anthem every auditioner went up and sang their strongest part of the song , and then Sexton gave the students that are auditioning an excerpt for the class song “Don’t you forget about me” by Simple Minds.
Kira Morrison was chosen to sing the national anthem. The students chosen to sing the class song are Daniel Portillo, Krist Inocencio,Lily Sanchez, and Joana Estrada.
They are all Performing Arts Magnet students. Rehearsals will be Thursday and Friday of next week with Sexton.
PAM senior Daniel “Juicy” said, “ I expect it to be very awesome and fun it will be very dope performing next to my best friends. Its going to be amazing on stage.”
Sexton said it was a hard choice. “Everyone was great and had their strengths, but we had to come down to one final winner.”
PAM senior Kira Morrison was chosen to sing the national anthem. She is very excited. “I have had a great time senior year. I hope our graduation would be a great collaboration of all the hard work the senior class has done this year,” said Morrison.
“This year has been the rebirth of the choral program and H2O program. Students that participated in Dracula, Spring Awakening, and Spring Concert have just done an unbelievable fantastic job. We know they would come in at an extraordinary professional level,”said Sexton.
