The High Notes, Pasadena Chorale’s middle school choir, is holding auditions for soprano and alto voices for its second season. Last year’s inaugural choir consisted of 30 singers from eight different middle schools in the Pasadena area.
According to choir director Jeffrey Bernstein, The High Notes offers a unique and special opportunity for students. First, the kids get to know other kids from other schools, broadening their exposure to students across town who they do not see every day but with whom they may have a lot in common. Second, this coming year, the students will range from sixth to 10th grade because they allowed the eighth graders to remain in the program (and some of those eighth graders are now 10th graders).
“The way our choir bridges the ages is unusual and fruitful,” Bernstein said, who founded Pasadena Chorale, a 90-voice community chorus in Pasadena, in 2009. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 