On the morning of Tuesday, December 17th, the 7th and 8th Grade Handbell Choirs departed school for our first program at Gracedale Nursing Home in Nazareth. Upon completing our presentation there, our next stop was the Adult Day Care of the Bethlehem YWCA. Afterward, we continued to the Moravian Village of Bethlehem to repeat our program once again.
On October 8, the sixth grade had a visit from Dr. Larry Lipkis, professor of music at Moravian College and father to two Moravian Academy alumni. Dr. Lipkis made his annual visit to the Middle School to enrich the students’ preparation for the Renaissance Faire field trip. He performs with the Baltimore Consort, an internationally acclaimed early music ensemble specializing in popular music from Shakespeare’s time.
The Eighth-Grade Handbell Ringers were recently invited to perform at the 2020 Pennsylvania Music Educators Association State Conference in the Poconos! This honor is given only to a small number of ensembles out of the 130 applicants from across the state. In April, the students will present their own 20-minute concert, which will be attended by the many music educators attending the conference.
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