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Largest Havre group to qualify in several years
Havre High School Senior Hannah Pratt, 17, from right, and Havre High School freshman Kate Hemmer, 14, practice songs Thursday with choir teacher Danna Stoll for Northwest Honor Choir concert. Stoll will take Pratt, Hemmer and Brigham Blackwell and Allie Messinger to Spokane next week, where they will prepare for a concert Saturday, March 14, in The Fox Theatre.
Four Havre students have qualified to travel to the Northwest Honor Choir, leaving Wednesday to perform in Spokane, Washington, at the Fox Theater Saturday, March 14.
Havre High School choir teacher Danna Stoll said she is taking four students from Havre High, Brigham Blackwell, Kate Hemmer, Allie Messinger and Hannah Pratt.
"Students from the Pacific Northwest submit auditions online," stoll said "If they are selected they learn their music ahead of time, then put it together with amazing directors over four days. It culminates in a concert for each ensemble."
The Northwest Honor Choir consists of students from Montana, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska who qualify for the performance.
Pratt said she's excited to be performing in Spokane, "really excited actually," she said.
She added that she wasn't very excited to begin with because she didn't expect to qualify. Now that the performance is coming closer and she is seeing how much they will do, that is changing.
"I cannot wait to sing with all those other people," she said. "I'm so excited I can't put it into words. It's awesome."
Hemmer said she is feeling more nervous.
"I'm really nervous because there's a lot of really good people there, but I'm really excited, too, because there are so many people there and the hotels are going to be pretty cool," she said.
Last year, Stoll said, she took one student to the choir, none in 2018 and two in 2017.
"It feels really cool to have that experience," she said. "I think it'll be fun because instead of it just being them they have other people from Havre they hang out with, too."
Stoll said that, this year, the choir is made up of five sub-choirs which are: intermediate treble choir for grades five through seven; children's seventh through ninth grade mixed; high school first and second soprano and first and second alto; high school tenor 1 and 2 and baritone and bass 2; and vocal jazz.
She added that the Northwest Honor Choir doesn't always perform in Spokane. Last year they traveled to Portland, Oregon, in 2018 the concert was in Seattle and in 2017 the performance was in Bellevue, Washington.
See more about the Northwest Honor Choir in Hi-Line Living in next Friday's edition of the Havre Daily News.
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