Students sing at Carnegie Hall

Jack Munford, Meshach Casey, Zach Ernst, and Rodney Mount will sing at Carnegie Hall on May 23.

Four Falls City High School students will be singing at in a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Saturday, May 23. Meshach Casey, son of Marilyn Casey; Zach Ernst, son of Craig and Cheri Ernst; Rodney Mount, son of Jerry Mount and Julie Mount; and Jack Munford, son of Jack and Diana Munford, will sing two classical pieces during the concert.

The four students, along with Falls City High School Chorus Director Alisha Sutton and Sue Rolfe, will spend five days in New York City rehearsing for the Saturday evening performance. Other participating Nebraska High Schools Choirs are the Elmwood-Murdock High School Choir and Valley Voices from Scottsbluff.

Choruses from the U.S. and Canada will come together at 8:00 p.m. in the historic concert hall to perform an array of musical masterpieces. Opening the program is guest conductor Jean Ashworth Bartle, leading the New England Symphonic Ensemble and choruses from Canada and the New York area.

Dr. Willian Wyman, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, will conduct Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339. Mark Conley will lead Haydn’s Te Deum in C Major. Choruses for both works are from Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Texas.

Rounding out the program will be David Brunner conducting three of his own compositions and Michael Short leading Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna performed by choruses from Arkansas, California and Florida.

Celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season, MidAmerica Productions was founded by Peter Tiboris in 1984. As an independent producer of classical concerts, MidAmerica presents soloists and choral and instrumental ensembles from around the work in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. MidAmerica also presents concerts in Eastern Europe and, since 2000, in Syros, Greece, as the Festival of the Aegean. To date, MidAmerica Productions has presented nearly 1000 concerts including more than 460 on the main stage of Carnegie Hall.