Performing Arts
New Hope-Solebury High school offers a performing arts program that allows students to sing, dance, act, and express themselves in a variety of ways. The Stephen J. Buck auditorium houses roughly 500 people and is used for the Mask & Zany theater productions, one act festival, comedy nights, movies nights, band, choir, orchestra, assembly, and class meetings.
Mask & Zany Theatre Club is a performing arts club for students that performs roughly five times a year. They produce a variety of classic plays, such as Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing, and modern musicals like Suessical and Once On This Island.
The New Hope-Solebury Wind ensemble is a group of musicians giving concerts several times every year. The group has participated in competitions in Disney World, Toronto, and Chicago. The ensemble also has a jazz band.
The choir is made up of approximately 100 students from grades 9-12. The chamber choir is a group of roughly 20 students. While the choir is open to all students who are interested in participating, students must audition to be accepted into the chamber choir. Both choirs perform at concerts and competitions in various locations.
The New Hope Solebury orchestra, which consists of the bass, cello, viola and violin, has a repertoire ranging from classical music to modern Broadway songs, also has received many awards at competitions, including best overall orchestra. They have played in San Francisco, Toronto, Hersheypark, Chicago, Disney World, Disney Land, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, and others.
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Famous quotes related to performing arts:
“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”
—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)