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Senior Choir, Junior choir and Harmony Group

We started the year with a bang, with weekend-long intensives for both Senior Choir and Harmony group. Both intensives culminated in a performance for the parents, and provided a good bonding experience for the singers.

Unfortunately, due to my commitments as a student teacher this year, and due to the Senior Production, Ever After, which many of the choir girls were heavily involved in, Mahurangi College did not compete in the Big Sing in 2015. However we have already begun preparations for our 2016 programme, which is going to be stunning.

Harmony Group are singing at an exceptional standard this year so we have been able to rehearse and perform music of a very high quality. On 23rd May, Harmony Group performed two items, ‘Royals’ (Lorde) and ‘Seal Lullaby’ (Eric Whitacre) for the Kai Rythmix concert, ‘Autumn Harmonies’ at Christ Church Anglican Church in Warkworth, and the audience response was fantastic. Almost all this year’s Harmony girls will still be at Mahurangi College in 2016, so we are using this opportunity to begin preparations early for the 2016 Big Sing. There have even been whisperings about a possible overseas trip, which we are looking into!

When we realised that Senior Choir rehearse at the same time as kapa haka, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to rehearse together. So this year, senior choir are preparing a combined item with the Kapa Haka for the cultural blues, ‘Kua Rongo’. I gave senior choir some serious musical challenges this year and they have responded brilliantly. As a result, we will be performing some tricky European Art music at the Cultural Blues, as well as some more relaxed contemporary music selected by the group from amongst our repertoire.

Our talented Junior choir have been singing in many languages and also learning the Kodaly method during our very early morning Thursday sessions! We are even learning a medley in French, from Carmen, the opera! Full credit to those parents who have religiously dropped their children off at 7:45am on those very frosty mornings, it is hugely appreciated. We have been invited to perform at Summerset Falls rest home, which we are in the process of organising, and the group is also keen to do some busking in Warkworth, once the weather warms up a bit!