{"id":12716,"date":"2015-12-11T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=12716"},"modified":"2015-12-11T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:44:00","slug":"malvern-goes-seven-for-seven-in-all-catholic-chorus-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=12716","title":{"rendered":"Malvern goes seven-for-seven in All-Catholic Chorus selections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MALVERN. \u2013\u00a0Seven auditioned and seven made the cut. On October 27, seniors\u00a0Skyler Davis (Chester Springs), Rob DiCicco (Broomall) and\u00a0Mike Gormley (Malvern); juniors\u00a0Turner Emery (Phoenixville),\u00a0Nick Gatti (St. Davids) and\u00a0R.J. Napoli (Norristown); and sophomore Christian Franck (Kennett Square)\u00a0traveled\u00a0to Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast High School in Drexel Hill to audition for this year&#8217;s All-Catholic Chorus Festival, comprised of the best high school singers from Catholic and private schools throughout the Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1240961\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MP-All-Catholic-Chorus-2015-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1240961\" class=\"wp-image-1240961 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MP-All-Catholic-Chorus-2015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"MP All-Catholic Chorus 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1240961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seven Malvern Prep students earned spots in the Philadelphia Archdiocese All-Catholic Chorus. They are (front, from left) R.J. Napoli (Norristown), Skyler Davis (Chester Springs) and Rob DiCicco (Broomall); and (back, from left) Mike Gormley (Malvern), Turner Emery (Phoenixville), Nick Gatti (St. Davids) and Christian Franck (Kennett Square).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;More than 150 students from 23 high schools\u00a0were judged by Archdiocese and independent Catholic school choral directors on their preparation, note and rhythmic accuracy, voice quality and musicianship,&#8221; says Malvern Prep Choral Director Ed Liga. &#8220;Each auditioning student sang a portion of Johan Hayden&#8217;s &#8216;Ave Maria&#8217; and &#8216;I Will Greatly Rejoice&#8217; by Knut Nystedt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This means that my hard work and effort that went into my auditions paid off,&#8221; says Napoli. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad that everyone from Malvern was selected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franck, who made the All-Catholic Chorus last year as a freshman, is ranked first in his Bass I section this year.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Catholic Chorus Festival Concert will be held Sunday, February 14 at 2:00 p.m. at Monsignor Bonner High School&#8217;s auditorium. This year&#8217;s guest conductor is\u00a0Dr. Christopher Kiver\u00a0from Penn State University. For more information on the concert, please contact\u00a0Ed Liga at eliga@malvernprep.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALVERN. \u2013\u00a0Seven auditioned and seven made the cut. On October 27, seniors\u00a0Skyler Davis (Chester Springs), Rob DiCicco (Broomall) and\u00a0Mike Gormley (Malvern); juniors\u00a0Turner Emery (Phoenixville),\u00a0Nick Gatti (St. Davids) and\u00a0R.J. Napoli (Norristown); and sophomore Christian Franck (Kennett Square)\u00a0traveled\u00a0to Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast High School in Drexel Hill to audition for this year&#8217;s All-Catholic Chorus Festival, comprised of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[5006,6715],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-schools","tag-malvern-prep","tag-philadelphia-archdiocese-all-catholic-chorus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}