Six seniors from band and eight seniors from choir took their last steps on stage at Powell High School.
PHS held their senior recognition night on April 10.
“My senior year has been excellent in my music classes,” senior Jenessa Polson said. “I have had a lot of fun, and being able to play so many solos is exciting for me.”
With a changed format of the traditional senior walk, most of the students felt that it was a quicker and more efficient way of recognizing graduating students.
“I liked having the seniors all go together. I know last year we had the band kids stand up and walk from their chairs one time,” senior JJ Gardner said. “I felt like that was a little awkward. I thought we really liked having this walk all together, and that gave me the opportunity to walk with both my groups.”
The eight choir seniors came together to work on a song for the music performance assessment, working hard on their song and hoping to do well.
“I really like the senior song,” senior Grace Good said. “And we have a person for each voice part, which is nice.”
Many seniors felt similar about the senior song, having a mutual agreement that they liked the song and felt it was good.
“I like it. I think it needs a little bit of work with just balance,” Gardner said. “but I think it was really pretty, and I enjoyed doing it.”
The consensus was that they liked the way the senior night was done differently to help conclude the long, eventful evening sooner.
“Yes, I think the way they did senior night was very time efficient,” Polson said. “Besides, there wasn’t too long of a long gap between the choir and the band when we reset the stage.”
While not all seniors are going to college for music, they plan on continuing to play or sing as they move into college.
“Yes, I have been accepted into one of my college’s choral groups,” Garder said. “I’ve been accepted into the biggest and longest running one, and right now I’m debating if I should join the marching band.”
Some students may not be going to college to major in music; some may continue because they enjoy what they are doing.
“I’m going to be doing college band and choir. Not for my major,” Polson said. “But I do love it, and I am excited to see something new.”
