Spring Concert

The Malad annual Spring Concert is scheduled for tomorrow, April 26 at 7 p.m in the High School gymnasium. Malad’s Middle School and High School students will be performing in this concert.
The seventh and eighth grade bands, the High School swing choir and the Dragon’s Minstrels Band are all going to be a part of the show.
There will be a fairly wide range of musical genres performed. Some of the songs selected by the Dragon’s Minstrels are “March Jambalaya,” “Keynoter March,” “Hungarian Dance” and other well known pep band pieces that are regularly played at sporting events. The middle school bands will be playing more basic songs because they’re still in the learning process.
“We will start with some pop music and work up to Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger,” said Ralph Bennett, the music director.
 Some of the songs that the swing choir will perform are “Dig a Little Deeper,” from the movie “The Princess and the Frog”; “I See the Light,” from the movie “Tangled” and a medley from “Tarzan.”
The swing choir is not only a singing group, but a dancing group as well. Swing choir will be performing a song called “Axel F” including a light show that has been choreographed by the choir’s very own dance captains. Dance captains choreograph each dance that the swing choir performs. According to Lamona Bennett, the assistant music director, a professional choreographer was asked to teach the students the steps to “Dig a Little Deeper,” but other than that the choir does their own choreographing.
“After we decide what songs we are going to sing, we review videos from past performances, put our own styles into the dances and just change it up,” said Jamal Andersen, a dance captain.
There are over 100 students scheduled to perform in this concert. Each student will be graded on how well they perform each selection.
“My favorite part of the concert is working with the kids and seeing what comes out,” Ralph said.
“It gets a little draggy practicing in the mornings,” Lamona said. “You don’t really get to see them have fun with it until the show. It’s like a flower that just blossoms.”