LOVELOCK - The Pershing County High School Choir and Symphonic Band started this year's musical début with a highly entertaining Halloween Concert. There were screams and shrieks from the stage and audience as well.
"This is the first year doing this. I can't think of any other way to start off a tradition than with a bang," said Pershing County School District Music Instructor Bryan Ringo.
And what a bang it was.
The concert started off with the Halloween classic "Monster Mash," with an outstanding performance by Allyse Lusby as the mad scientist.
The music then glided into "Transylvania Mania" from the movie "Young Frankenstein," with werewolves, mummies, witches and skeletons dancing in the audience aisles, bringing laughter and squeals from young audience members.
"I thought it was going to be boring but it wasn't," audience member Guadalupe Paredes said after the concert.
The Symphonic Band showed off its talent with the "Raider's March" from the movie "Indiana Jones," then they got the audience going again with an interactive rendition of the "Chicken Dance" song. As the house lights went up audience members could be seen flapping their wings and wiggling their tail feathers.
Sarah Rogers and Scott Plimpton impressed the audience with their performances of selections from Disney's "Tarzan" movie.
A duet from Madison Christensen and Sam Knight entranced the audience as they sang "Defying Gravity" from the Broadway musical "Wicked."
"It's not something I want to do again in the near future. I'm kind of shy," Knight said in a later interview.
Shy or not, Knight's baritone voice and Christensen's soprano voice meshed astonishingly well. Both gave an amazing performance.
But the night did not end there.
The group's encore performance "Counting Creatures" had every elementary student singing along with them.
Ringo said that the students have been practicing since school started.
"I feel that all the students did an excellent job," Ringo said.
Surely every attendee of the concert felt the same way.
"I've had many parents and community members send emails, stop me as I'm riding my bike, and giving me hugs, thanking me for the performance. Those reactions have made the difference and we're already planning for Halloween 2013," Ringo added.
Watch for future fundraising events with Carol Grams in December. Proceeds from these will help fund choir activities. Contact Ringo at the high school for more information.
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