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<p class="fontlook">Carrollton’s Les Choristes High School Choir participated in the Hawaii Music Festival trip over Spring Break. The trip was a resounding success. The students had a total of 9 rehearsals and 10 performances all in distinct locations. Performance highlights included a Holy Thursday Passion Play/Paraliturgy and student exchange at Sacred Hearts Academy, the Governor’s Mansion, the Queen’s Palace, the University of Hawaii, Good Friday Service at Kawaiaha’o Church (oldest and official state church of Hawaii), the Hawaii Music Festival itself, and Easter 8:00 a.m. mass at St. Augustine by the Sea, a beautiful stained glass filled Catholic church located right on Waikiki beach. At the Saturday all-day high school and college festival, Les Choristes sang three a cappella pieces from the Renaissance, Romantic, and Gospel idioms whereby they placed highest overall  rating receiving straight Superior scores. They also had the honored distinction of being the only high school group to sing with the college choirs as they debuted a world premiere of a brand new composition based on the life of Hawaii’s newest canonized saint, St. Damien. Throughout the week they were completely immersed in Hawaiian culture and music. They learned to speak and sing many traditional songs in the native Hawaiian language, learned how to dance the hula from a real “Kuma Hula” (master hula instructor), and experienced clinics, seminars and rehearsals with true master choral directors including “Auntie” Nola Nahulu (without doubt the matriarch of the choral world in Hawaii) and Dr. Eph Ehly, the visiting distinguished guest conductor for the festival. Sunday afternoon, Monday and Tuesday were spent experiencing the traditional tourist highlights of beautiful Oahu including hiking Diamond Head, visiting Pearl Harbor, going to a Luau, seeing the rainforest/waterfalls, observing spectacular mountain and coastal views.  

 
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