By Nancy Dahal \u201828
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Wyoming Seminary\u2019s Music Department certainly made their mark this past holiday season, spreading cheer with each of their annual holiday performances. December\u2019s chapel combined beautiful music with heartfelt proclamations of faith and provided students with a magical experience prior to their departure for Winter Break.\u00a0
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Principal cellist Hannah Salesky \u201826 \u201cthought that the concert went really well, and had so much fun playing!.\u201d Salesky noted The Toy Symphony <\/em>as a personal highlight of the program, but also \u201cloved the combined choral and orchestra pieces and the way that the sound filled up the entire auditorium.\u201d Under Mrs. Vaida\u2019s instruction, the group worked for months before. Their hard work paid off \u2013 from fun melodies such as the \u201cLibertango\u201d by Astor Piazzolla to contrastingly slow and smooth sounds such as the \u201cAdagietto from Symphony No. 5\u201d by Gustav Mahler, the compositions were executed with grace and ease. Violinist Zuzana Havlickova \u201826 \u201creally love[d] the way that the music in the concert brought different people together.\u201d\u00a0 Along with the string ensemble, the chorale contributed to the fantastic spectacle. Notably, the Madrigals select ensemble touched audience members\u2019 hearts with \u201cThe Snow\u201d by Edward Elgar and the Chorale brought fun holiday cheer with Andy Beck\u2019s arrangement of \u201cSleigh Ride\u201d with its own horse soloists. Chloe Caputo \u201826 also performed an incredible solo as a part of \u201cThe Bleak Midwinter,\u201d arranged by Mark Hayes, prior to the full choir\/orchestra\u2019s performance of \u201cSilent Night\u201d that closed the concert. Thanks to the hard work of Dr. Hall, Mrs. Hall, and Ms. Tsukasa as well as all the students and faculty involved, the Chorale continues to bring festivities to our campus.\u00a0 These two different ensembles fused their talents to present a showcase that truly wowed the community. The variety of pieces performed ranged heavily in manner with somber declarations to triumphant celebrations all packed into an explosive demonstration of technique and passion. Students and faculty involved sang their hearts out for the holiday season, a testament to the countless hours spent perfecting sequences on their individual instruments.\u00a0 By Nancy Dahal \u201828 Wyoming Seminary\u2019s Music Department certainly made their mark this past holiday season, spreading cheer with each of their annual holiday performances. December\u2019s chapel combined beautiful music Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/winterconcert25.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5348,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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