With the holidays quickly approaching, Winter concerts and events are in full swing! Here’s what you may have missed last week:

• Saturday, December 7, 9 am-3 pm: Band Boosters Holiday Craft Fair & Gift Auction
• Wednesday, December 11, 7 pm: Winter Chorus Concert
• Tuesday, December 17, 7 pm: Winter Band Concert

And here’s what is coming up:

• Thursday, January 23, 7 pm: Show Choir Winter Concert

Band Boosters Holiday Craft Fair & Gift Auction

On Saturday, December 7th, from 9 am to 3 pm, the Point Pleasant Borough High School Band Boosters hosted the 49th annual Holiday Craft Fair and Gift Auction. Local vendors and businesses line the halls of Memorial Middle School (Laura Herbert Dr., Point Pleasant Boro), selling a variety of items, perfect for Christmas gifts. Many are homemade by Boro residents and are very unique! Vendors can be found in the front and center hallways and inside the gymnasium. The gift auction is held in the cafeteria, along with a 50/50 raffle, where many people won some fantastic prizes! Visitors got to enjoy live holiday instrumental music performed by band members, and met Santa! All proceeds benefited the Point Boro band. If you missed this fun fair, remember to come on down next year and do some shopping or try your luck in the gift auction. 

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Winter Chorus Concert

Wednesday, December 11 at 7pm was the High School Winter Chorus Concert! Students have worked hard learning this holiday music since September. Here’s the program breakdown, via Choir director Ms. Felicia Villa: 

• Baraka Na Wewe 
  • Words and music by Victor C. Johnson
  • Student percussionist Chris Jacobson
• Once Upon a December 
  • Words and music by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Arr. Audrey Snyder
• God Rest You Merry, Gentleman
  • Traditional, Arr. Philip Kearn
  • Sung by the Tenor and Bass sections
• Spark of Light 
  • From The Vastness of the Universe
  • Icelandic Poet Jonas Hallgrimsson
  • Composer Andrew Steffen
• Mymt IV: The Ground 
  • From Sunrise Mass
  • Ola Gjeilo
• Hava Blessing 
  • Based on a Cannon by Thomas Tallis, Arr. Richard Bjella
  • Student Trumpet Player Sadie Bober
• We Need a Little Christmas
  • From Mame
  • Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman, Arr. Mac Huff
• Morning Glow
  • From Pippin, Arr. Eric Van Cleave
  • Instrumentalists- Trumpet: Sadie Bober, Trombone: Heidi Hagemeyer, Tenor Sax: Andrew Scraggs, Barry Sax: Raeli Kolber, Drums: Mr. Scott Visco
  • Soloist: Emma Christensen
• Shalom 
  • John 14:27
  • Dan Forrest
  • Violinist Tanya Peterson
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 
  • Words and music by Meredith Wilson, Arr. Mark Hayes
• No. 44 Hallelujah Chorus 
  • From “Messiah”
  • George Frideric Handel 
  • Joined by Boro Choir Alumni! 
• Gaelic Blessing 
  • Anon

Winter Band Concert 

The Winter Band Concert will be held at the Loren D. Donley Center for the Performing Arts, at 7 pm on December 17th. Here’s the concert breakdown, via director Mr. Scott Visco:

• John Williams in Concert
  • John Williams is a well-known composer, who has done many soundtracks for movies, like Star Wars, ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Olympic Fanfare, and Harry Potter. This song is a medley containing Darth Vader’s theme song to honor James Earl Jones, the voice actor for Darth Vader who recently passed away.

• Silent Night in Gotham
  • The second song of the performance will be Silent Night in Gotham, arranged by Julie Jiroux. 
• Hascal’s Rascals
  • Snare drum feature
  • Featuring Sam Pschorr, Chris Jacobson, and Cole Gripp

• Beloved Immortals Arrangement

• • The Point Pleasant Boro High School’s Competition Marching Band recently finished their season, with their show entitled Beloved Immortals. It is a mix of songs including:

                            –Moonlight Sonata

                                      Ludwig Van Beethoven

                          –11th String Quartet

                                      Serioso Ludwig Van Betthoven

                           –My Immortal

                                    Evanescence 

                        –For whom the Bell Tolls

                                   Metallica

                       –Lacrimosa

                                  From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem

• Sleigh Ride
• Charlie Brown Christmas
• American in Paris
  • A George Gershwin piece, in honor of this past Olympics

• Magma
  • The senior class’ 5th-grade song!

Show Choir Concert: 

The Winter Show Choir Performance will be on January 23 at 7 pm. Choreography is by Ms. Emily Strassheim. Here’s a list of songs that will be performed (In no particular order): 

• • Treble Group Songs:

• Can’t Catch Me Now by Olivia Rodrigo, from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, featuring soloists Greyson Tufts and Ashlee Adolf

• Mama Who Bore Me from Spring Awakening, a medley of the original and the reprise 

• How Can I Cry? By Moira Smiley, featuring soloists Yartiza Villegas, Sadie Bober, Nora Connelly, Alana Kulaszewski

• Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, Glee Version, featuring the show choir senior members

• • Acapella Group Songs:

• Don’t Forget Me, As performed on the NBC Drama Smash

• Requiem from Dear Evan Hansen

• Somewhere Only We Know by Keane, Glee Version

• Dust in the Wind by Kerry Livgren, Arr. Roger Emerson

To get your holiday spirit on, come out and support the arts at these festive events!