A standing room only crowd enjoyed what many called the finest Wardlaw-Hartridge Lower School Concert ever on Thursday, May 10. Catchy tunes filled the air with instrumentals and vocals that delighted the crowd.
The show began with the Pre-Kindergarten and Junior Kindergarten students singing T
he Rainbow Connection and
Hala lala layya and
I've Got Music Down in My Heart. Percussion was provided by A
nya Batra, Isabella Caldwell, Michael Howell III, Vinay Karthik and
Nikeeta Khurana.The fourth grade beginning band took the stage and played six songs:
Go Tell Bill, Hot Cross Buns, Merrily We Roll Along, Au Claire de la Lune, Farm Out and
Sweetly Sings the Donkey. The Kindergarten and first grade sang
I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, Guantanamera (with percussion by
Rohan Batra and
Varleine Coq) and
Crocodile Rock.
The fifth grade band performed four selections:
Fanfare Heroica, Montego Bay, Rock-A-Bye Baby and
Loosen Up Take Two. The third grade recorder consort, with percussion by
Olivia Brown, Elijah Gray, Leila Hernández-Webster, Shaan Jasti, Anna Razvi and
Ronit Shahane, played
Kumbaya.
The second and third graders sang
Magic with soloists
Emma Rose Jacobson, Talia Jacobson, Jason Kisare, Simone Erachshaw, Kyler Montague and
Suniti Shah,
Hope is a Hidden Star and
Hitori, with percussion by
Aarush Dharayan, Tenajah Eldridge, Nicholas Ji, Julian Kaniuka, Nicole Ling, Elijah Ojo, Chetan Yasa and
Masoma Zaidi.
The fourth and fifth graders performed four vocals:
Sahayta with soloists
Stanislav DeLaurentiis, Sydney Johnson, Janeyce McCray, Aanandi Murlidharan, Briella Payami, Sydney Rose and
Alexandra Vargas,
Flying Free, Count on Me and
Galop.
All students came together for the finale, a wonderful rendition of
We Are the World with
Dazyln Erachshaw on wind chimes and soloists M
ikayla Cole, Lillian Helander, Kaeli Montague, Amanda Lutz, Marcia Ojo, Nadia Valcourt and
Sara Reiss.
The performers, parents and other guests enjoyed an Olympic themed reception in the Oakwood Room following the concert.
Photos by Legacy School Photos
