{"id":32062,"date":"2023-07-03T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=32062"},"modified":"2023-07-15T05:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:33:37","slug":"students-perform-at-carnegie-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=32062","title":{"rendered":"Students Perform at Carnegie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Franklin Elementary School chorus performed at Carnegie Hall with the New England Symphonic Ensemble and several other choirs from the tri-state area on May 26.\u00a0 During the week prior to the performance, Parisian conductor and choirmaster Francis Bardot worked with the children in New York City and conducted them during the concert.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving the invitation last October, Franklin students auditioned and 23 were selected for the special performance at Carnegie Hall.\u00a0 Franklin vocal music director R. Brent Geyer held after school rehearsals over the past several months, leading the student vocalists through Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi\u2019s masterwork, \u201cStabat Mater\u201d, a 40-minute piece all in Latin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Franklin.Carnegie-Hall-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Franklin.Carnegie-Hall-3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Franklin.Carnegie-Hall-3-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Franklin.Carnegie-Hall-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\u201cI can\u2019t even express how proud I am of these hardworking, talented students. They went beyond my expectations, singing the whole 40 minute piece in Latin from memory in front of an audience of thousands,\u201d says Geyer. \u201cThis was a wonderful experience for both me and my students, and I\u2019m grateful for being given this once in a lifetime opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Carnegie Hall performance also included Paul Aitken\u2019s Songs of Promise and Peace and Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No. 5, Op. 64.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Franklin Elementary School chorus performed at Carnegie Hall with the New England Symphonic Ensemble and several other choirs from the tri-state area on May 26.\u00a0 During the week prior to the performance, Parisian conductor and choirmaster Francis Bardot worked with the children in New York City and conducted them during the concert. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,151],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-32062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-education","category-westfield-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32063,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062\/revisions\/32063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32062"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=32062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}