Sunday, November 18, 2007

PS22 Chorus 2001 Classic Holiday Show Performance



As this year's chorus is hard at work preparing for PS22's 9th annual holiday choral concert, we thought we'd whet your appetites for the holiday season with some classic performances from past winter shows. We begin with the holiday choral concert of 2001!!!


Our rip-roaring rendition of Destiny's Child's R&B classic, "Independent Women", rewritten for the holidays! "Santa hear this! Bring on Christmas! Throw those presents at me!" The soloists in blue are:

Kimberly in blue (ultracool, and sister of current chorus member, Justin)

Raven in blue (great singer and great basketball player!)

Adiza in white ('The Diz' who's gone on to LaGuardia High School for vocal music!) &

Jasmine in white (currently the CEO of her own ethnic hair and skin product line, Edenbodyworks. Check out her accomplishments, including appearances on Montel Williams, Donny Deutch, & Oprah here)



A song we used for Chanukah, called Zichronot M'Afrika by Shlomo Gronich! The kids did a great job on an extremely difficult song! Calixto and Christina did sound fantastic as a duo.


Here is an original song we used for our holiday show AND our September 11th docu-drama currently being exhibited at TRIBUTE WTC, The World Trade Center Museum in NYC. It's called "A Healing", and Carmelo sings the song so beautifully. Check out his amazing recent performance of the same song (only six years later!), from our recent performance at Tribute WTC in October.


And finally, here is the chorus featuring two of the greatest, O'Neil and Kemi, singing the beautiful song by John Gorka called "Bells On Christmas Day". I've always loved this song, and the kids do it here so well.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

i lov the new song it could be better then the others but there fantastick sonngs very cool i forgot wen is the holiday thingy goin to be?

sincerly,
arsewy lik u call me

Mr. B said...

Hi Arsewy! The concert will probably be on the 20th of December....

The Isaiah said...

HI MR B HOW R U DOING. im doing pretty good in 51 and in da chorus. our chorus is GREAT! u have to hear us. our musiq teacher ms lopa she is so nice and so fun to be teached by. ZIHA IS GREAT U HAVE TO HEAR HER. me & nik are best buddies there wer like a tag team...in chorus. i hope dat i can visit one day so i gotta go peace out THE B

Mr. B said...

hey zay!!

great to hear from you!! i'm glad to hear that you and nick are chorus pals! and really glad to hear that you're enjoying miss lopa's chorus! she's a really nice teacher and i can't wait to hear you at your holiday show! (if at all possible i will be there!) i miss you and the rest of the gang, and hopefully you can stop by and say hello when of these days in person! you're the best, amigo!

:)

Anonymous said...

hi mr.B wen can i try out the new song solo part

im goin to keep botherin untill u let do it plzzzzz!!!!
sincerly,arsewy
PLZZ

Mr. B said...

yeah, i see that you're going to keep bothering me until i do. maybe i'll have the chorus kids in your class audition during your music period tomorrow. but remember sweet arsewy, chorus isn't about the solos, it's about the team!

:)

Anonymous said...

and i willl allwayZZZZ REMBER THAT WERE A TEAM I WILL NEVER FORGET
SINCERLY,ARSEWY

Mr. B said...

you are a sweetie-pie!

:)