Every song tells another 'Story'

Choir concert features wide range of styles

Irish reels and ballads, spirituals, African drumming, show tunes and songs about eternal love are on the program as the Flathead High School choirs present their fall concert entitled Create Your Story on Tuesday in the high school auditorium.

Special guests for the concert will be Kalispell fifth-graders Emma Fawcett, Anna Stone and Jessica Helder. They will perform the leading roles in the song Three Little Maids From School Are We, accompanied by the Varsity Womens Choir.

Also on the program are:

-Dry Bones in which the Varsity Mens Choir connect the head bone to the neck bone to the sound of various shop tools such as ratchets, drills and crowbars;

-May It Be, a ballad from the soundtrack to the film The Lord of the Rings;

-Horizons, a striking account of the first contact between Europeans and the Bushmen of the Kalahari;

-Oye La Msica, a pop Latin ballad featuring several Salsa dancing couples;

-the concertina playing of guest artist Richard Stump, accompanying a rollicking Celtic medley from Nova Scotia together with string bass and bodhran (Irish drum);

.A Boy and A Girl, a lushly romantic piece of choral poetry sung a cappella by the Concert Choir in mixed formation.

The stories behind these songs are everyones stories Kevin Allen-Schmid, Flathead choral director, said. Create Your Story is the theme of the year for the Flathead High School student body. This theme provides us with a year long incentive to make each day count to find meaning in our lives and to sing about it from the heart.

The free concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and will last about an hour.

Audience members are encouraged to arrive early to get a seat. A broadcast of the concert will be aired on KALS 97.1 FM radio at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, and also from time to time on Bresnan Community Access TV Channel 9.