Albany High School students have been busy this month helping our city get in the holiday spirit!
On Dec. 1, Albany High’s Albanettes and Troubadours sang carols to help with the festivities at the City of Albany’s tree-lighting ceremony at City Hall.
On Dec. 6, several music groups performed at the first of two December concerts at school.
On Dec. 8, Superintendent Jospeh Hochreiter sat in on drums when the high school’s jazz ensembles -- the Jazzmanian Devils and B Flats -- performed at Spinner’s restaurant.
Albany High musicians then jingled all the way through the week of Dec. 11:
- On Dec. 11, choral and jazz students performed at the State Education Department as part of the Chancellor’s Holiday Gathering.
- On Dec. 13, Albany High held its second December concert.
- On Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, junior Jonathan “Elvis” Booth entertained district staff at Academy Park and administrators at the Harriet Gibbons Student Services Center with his rendition of songs made famous by the King of Rock and Roll. Booth’s band included Superintendent Hochreiter on drums and Albany High Discovery Academy Principal Jordan Goldman on guitar.
- On Dec. 15, Albany High Consort musicians and the Jazzmanian Devils – again with a guest turn from the superintendent on drums – performed at the NERIC Regional Technology Awareness Day at the Albany Capital Center.
On Dec. 19, choral students performed at the Albany Public Library Pine Hills branch, and the following day the Albany High Consort welcomed guests at Albany School of Humanities for a celebratory event marking ASH’s designation as a National ESEA Distinguished School.
A busy and festive month to be sure! Our thanks for all of our student-musicians and their dedicated teachers for their hard work and beautiful music!
