The Shadow
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Fifteen members of the Class of 2019 performed for the final time as members of Greenbrier East High School choirs Monday evening, May 20, in the sanctuary of Old Stone Presbyterian Church in Lewisburg.
Directed by Barbara Lutz, director of the Choral Music Department at Greenbrier East, the choirs performing included the Combined Choirs, Concert Choir, All State Chorus GEHS participants, the Spartan Chorus and the Chamber Choir.
Accompanist for all choirs was Mrs. Susan Adkins, former GEHS Choral Music director, and for the Combined Choirs Ella Bowes, percussionist.
Soloists were featured with the Spartan Chorus and were Bryce McCallister, Caliyah Newsome, Kamon Anderson, Abbigail Feamster, Jude Cunningham, and Phoenix Greer.
The Combined Choirs opened the program with “Kawouna Wan Gi Pl,” also known as “The Water Song,” tying into a GEHS student project of raising funds to provide fresh drinking water to a school in Africa that does not have that benefit. The Combined Choirs concluded the program with “Hold Me, Rock Me” and “My Home Among the Hills.”
Members of the Class of 2019 performing for a final concert were Haley Blake, Sophie Bowes, Grace Harbert, Rosa Ketchum, Allison Wilson, Bailey Withrow, Alex Buly, Brandon Cruz, Avery Honaker, Sarah Jones, Devin Miller, Revanna Preston, Joseph Santiago, Lanie Wykle, and Larry Loftin III.
Three Class of 2019 members of the choirs were absent and they are Kaitlyn Allen, Ava Hardesty and Nevaeh Traynham All State members of the GEHS choirs for 2019 were Allison Wilson, Rosie Ketchum, Bailey Withrow, Nevaeh Traynham, Brandon Cruz, Marion Lawson, Devin Miller and Avery Honaker. They performed one of the selections performed by the All State Chorus earlier this spring.
In addition to the Instrumental and Choral Music programs at Greenbrier East, the students have the opportunity to learn piano and guitar instrumentation.
