Germantown Choir to host Christmas concert
The Germantown Choir program will host a Christmas performance that is open to the public at the Rotunda at Germantown High School at 7 p.m. on Dec. 12.
“Everyone is welcome,” Choir director Jordan Langworthy said. “Last year we packed out the rotunda. It was standing room only.”
This year the choir will sing seasonal music and a few GHS families have been selected to share what Christmas means to them.
Senior Mikayla Jones said the performances are a great way to “showcase what we do in class.”
The Christmas Candlelight Service might be the biggest performance of the first half of the school year.
Langworthy has just over 100 kids in her high school choir. Within that program there is the 22-person Legacy- which she described as the school’s “premier a-cappella group”- and Cheval, which is composed of 55 female students. Langworthy auditions potential members for Legacy and Cheval out of the larger choir.
“I think they have created something really, really special,” Langworthy said of her students. “And that is not me being cocky. They are the ones singing and they are just that good.”
Jone said Langworthy is the ‘heart and soul” of the program and is thankful for the many challenges and opportunities she has provided as choir director.
“It would not be possible without her,” Jones said.
Neely Ray, a senior in the choir, said she loves working towards a “common goal” with everyone else in the choir.
“When you walk in the door of that classroom you can just drop everything that is bothering you and do what you all love to do,” Ray said.
Ella Applegate, a junior said she is thankful for the time she has with the Germantown High School Choir.
“I am grateful for the progress we have made and how this choir has nourished my love of music,” Applegate said. “I know this is something that will be hard to find anywhere else.”
Recently, Germantown's Legacy received superior ratings, Best in Class Ensemble and Grand Champion ensemble at the Riverland Choral Competition in Pearl earlier this month. Cheval also received superior ratings.
Langworthy said this is the fourth year in a row her choir has taken home the grand champion award at this competition.
Next semester they open the year with performances for the State School Board and a joint performance with the Mississippi State University Choir in February.
They have district evaluations at Ridgeland High School on Feb. 12 and if those go as planned they will go to the state evaluations on March 6 and March 7, where they hope to walk away with their eighth straight year of superior ratings.
They have their big spring concert for the whole choir on April 15 and Legacy will host their showcase on April 17. both of those performances are at the high school and hope to have the new performing arts building complete in time to host the concerts.