Honor Choir Sings Their Way to Walt Disney Concert Hall [ArticleImageHyperLink] Advertising Friday, May 18, 2012 By Ailin Huynh    Recently at the Los Angeles Master Chorale High School Choir Festival 4 out of the 5 schools in the El Monte district attended the festival, bringing their voices and high spirits with them. The 4 participants in our district include, Arroyo High School, El Monte High School, Rosemead High School, and Mountain View High School.    According to choir director, Jennifer Stanley, “The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional ensemble of singers in Los Angeles who specialize in performing chorale repertoire. The Master Chorale sponsors the festival, which is attended by around 900 high school students, and all the students together learn the same 6 songs and then they perform them together as Walt Disney Concert Hall. There are 25 high schools in all that are participating.”    The High School Choir Festival was held on May the 4th. When asking how the Master Chorale went, Ms. Stanley had this to say, “It was amazing, there were 900 students there and they were all singing together and it was just a really beautiful and moving experience. An experience that the kids had a great time with Grant Gershon, the music director and we had 4 students in the honor choir, Jane Lam, Bryan Le, Jessica Meza, and Gabriel Rios and they were great. There were some technical difficulties with the organ but they got it up and running and everything was great.”    Accoring to Garbriel Rios the Master Chorale , “just walking into  Walt Disney Concert Hallwas just an absolute honor since we are in the honor choir and I never thought in 7th grade that I could possibly imagine working with Grant Gershon, he is just amazing and it was   just a really humbling experience.”

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