The George School Community Chorus will hold its annual concert on Sunday, January 30, at 3:00 p.m. in the George School Meeting House. The concert will feature selections from David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus, a multicultural choral work that superimposes the ceremonial music of various African tribes on a choral arrangement of the Latin Mass. A result of the composer’s journey through Africa during the early 1970s, in which he recorded the music of more than fifty tribes, the work brings together diverse musical and religious traditions.

The Community Chorus will also sing selections from Jester Hairston, Moses Hogan, and Randall Thompson, and the select student chorale will perform a Renaissance motet and a Beatles tune. In addition, a student piano trio will play a movement from Quartet in C Minor Opus 60 by Johannes Brahms, joined by visiting artist Sam Bergman, a 1994 graduate of George School.

The George School Community Chorus, which prepares one large concert each year, is made up not only of George School students, faculty, staff, and parents, but also of friends and neighbors of George School. Participation is open to all without audition. Next year’s season will run from January to May.

All George School students take four year-long courses in the arts. In addition to vocal and instrumental music, the Arts Department offers courses in theater arts, dance, video production, journalism, painting and drawing, woodworking and furniture design, ceramics, and photography. The Arts Department encourages students to be creative and enjoy themselves while they practice and appreciate a specific art form. In addition, students learn to be discriminating when they evaluate their own and others' work. 

About George School 
George School, founded in 1893 by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), teaches that each person shares a responsibility for helping to make the world a better place. The student body is diverse, representing twenty states and thirty foreign countries and a variety of ethnic, racial, religious, academic, and economic backgrounds. Each year more than $4 million in need-based financial aid is provided to eligible students.