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Music department to host concert, art exhibition

Lehighton Area Middle School will present it's annual concert and art exhibition on Tuesday. The 20th annual Spring Art Exhibition will begin at 6 p.m. while the Spring Choral Concert will begin at 7 p.m.

Fifth through 8th-grade art classes will present their art work. Projects that were created this year include ceramics, 3-D construction, printing, drawings and mixed media works in a juried art display with awards given.The Treble Chorale, consisting of fifth- and sixth-graders, will begin the program. The Treble Chorale will begin their portion of the program with "Home" which blends the song "Shenandoah" with original material.The chorale will perform several other selections, including a Japanese song entitled, "Moon at the Ruined Castle" with Calvin Maholick accompanying on piano.Thomas Weidner is the director of the Treble Chorale.The middle school show choir, Music Express Jr. and the seventh- and eighth-grade chorus, the Choraliers, will alternate selections for the second half of the concert.Music Express Jr. will perform the original "We Are America," which features eighth-grader Alex Keck and seventh-grader Michael Miller.Others songs include "I Was Here" and "Seed to Sow," which portray the importance of making your mark in the world.The Choraliers will perform the pop hit, "Listen to the Music" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera among its selections.Music Express Jr. and the Choraliers will combine to present the uplifting original, "The Spirit of America."Seventh-graders Megan Latshaw and Jaden Scherer will perform solos on Queen's "Somebody To Love."The concert will conclude with the Lee Greenwood classic, "God Bless the

U.S.A." Ethan Miller, an eighth-grader, will be featured on the concert's final selection.