Broadway Company to Perform at Thanksgiving Concert

ARROWHEAD HIGH SCHOOL

BROADWAY COMPANY

Broadway Company's Cats

Over 450 students participate in the choral music program at Arrowhead High School. Approximately, 50 students sing in a Concert Choir and participate in a select music theater troupe, The Broadway Company. The Broadway Company’s Cats production won USA Today’s award for Best High School Musical in the USA. Arrowhead High School choir students appear frequently with the Wisconsin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wisconsin State Honors Choir, and at historic Holy Hill. The choirs are directed by Nancy Jorgensen and Grace Bielski.

On Sunday, November 24, Arrowhead High School Broadway Company students will perform with Present Music, Milwaukee’s professional contemporary music ensemble. The Thanksgiving concert, presented at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, will feature Arrowhead students singing “Fly Away I,” by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Caroline Shaw. Shaw (the youngest person ever to win the Pulitzer Prize) will also perform on the concert.

Composer Caroline Shaw,
conductor Kevin Stalheim,
with AHS
Broadway Company students

On the same concert, a select group of Broadway Company students will join professional singers to present David Lang’s 40-voice piece, “I Never.”

The concert begins at 5 pm. Tickets are $15, $25, and $35 and are available online at at www.presentmusic.org or by phone (414) 271-0711. 

Composer Caroline Shaw with some
Broadway Company students

Present Music’s (PM) newly-formed vocal ensemble, Hearing Voices, will be joined by choirs and singers from Arrowhead High School, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Pius XI High School, Voces Punica from Carthage College, and visiting composer and performer, Caroline Shaw, to create an amazing vocal experience at the annual PM Thanksgiving concert. 

PM and special guests will perform the remarkable 40-voice masterpiece Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis alongside David Lang's Tallis-inspired 40-voice I Never. The program will feature Caroline Shaw’s Sarabande, Fly Away I and Fly Away III, Punctum, and Cantico delle creature. Keeping with the Present Music Thanksgiving tradition of friendship and inclusion, the audience will be invited to join in the opening and closing songs by the Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group and sing along to The Way Old Friends Do composed by Björn Kristian Ulvaeus of ABBA. 

Please come out in join the Arrowhead Broadway Company in celebrating this time of Thanksgiving.