Extraordinary talent on display at Arts Evening

Extraordinary talent on display at Arts Evening

Angela Jou put together a fantastic Arts evening on Monday night, again reminding us of the incredible depth and breadth of talent among our students at St Mark's.  The strong sense of community was evident with students either performing or participating - supporting, listening and learning - learning about life and learning about one another. 

The impact of the choir who sang the rhythmic and melodic Ethiopian Song Issay Issay! (which means Hear Ye, Hear Ye!) followed by the popular song by Stephen Schwartz from the musical Pocahontas "The Colours of the Wind" certainly set the tone and standard for the evening. 

Alicia Hurkmans "There's a fine line" from the musical Avenue Q was performed with passion and fervour.  Interestingly, Avenue Q is a musical inspired by Sesame Street (but for adults) and most of the characters are puppets.  Many in the audience related to Alicia's performance, which did not contain the profanity evident in many of the other Avenue Q songs, however the 'adult themes' led appropriately (or not!) to the act that followed - adult themes containing profanity, although appropriately educating in a comedic musical style by Nic Conway and Ali McMichael.

Laura Desmond's Medley was delivered with precision and Cassie Haines performance of "If I Ain't Got You' by Alicia Keys with its melodic R&B was just gorgeous.  Rosie McBain composed and performed her own song inspired by pub night and Jono Hamer's vocals with ukulele in his performance of Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley (originally by Leonard Cohen) was splendid.  Liz Napier's performance from the musical Wicked! of Defying Gravity was 'wicked!!' again playing to an audience captivated by her incredible talent.

On the ivory keys were the talented Brendon Gehringer and David Lee who inspired the audience to listen to him play Chopin with the lights off.  Angie Jou played the famous "Sky Lark" written by Glinka Balakirev in 1840 - a beautiful and sad melody.

Hayden Lee's piece on the didgeridoo of Idakapi gnyinta (Crocodile Dreaming) provided a change of pace and style and favourites on the guitar by Rhys Bawden, Sam Gurner, Joel Robinson, Jess Conway, Bec Hahn on the violin and Callum Deakin on his home made drum provided for more variety, talent and fun for the evening.

The St Mark's band (winners of the annual inter-college Battle of the Bands performance last weekend) performed the finale to a packed and rocking audience, all keenly awaiting the next semester performances.

 

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