Northern Lehigh students to participate in honors band
Northern Lehigh High School students who have been selected to participate in the 61st annual Lehigh County Honors Band Concert include front, from left, Maggie Reitz, Brianna Strohl and Francine Ohlson. Middle: Catherine Shelly, Charles Fleischmann and Olivia Walters. Back row: Scott Schaeffer, Austin Deibert and Dylan Kuntz. Missing from the photo are Madison Hoffman and Mike Martineau. Visit www.tnonline.com for a video. TERRY AHNER/TIMES NEWS
Eleven Northern Lehigh High School students have been hand-picked to show off their elite musical talents.
They will be joined by more than 100 of the top student musicians in Lehigh County at the 61st annual Lehigh County Honors Band Concert.
The concert, presented by Catasauqua High School, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Catasauqua High School Auditorium.
The snow date is 2 p.m. Sunday.
The host director this year is Robert Arnold, Catasauqua High School band director.
Northern Lehigh Band Director David Carroll said the students who have been selected for the festival this year include Austin Deibert (senior), Charles Fleischmann (senior), Madison Hoffman (junior), Dylan Kuntz (junior), Mike Martineau (senior), Francine Ohlson (sophomore), Maggie Reitz (sophomore), Scott Schaeffer (senior), Catherine Shelly (junior), Brianna Strohl (senior), and Olivia Walters (freshman).
“The purpose of this festival is to promote music education in our schools, showcase the great musical talent that exists in Lehigh County, and to give our band students a unique and enriching instrumental experience which extends beyond the typical concert band settings that exist in most public schools,” Carroll said. “I am pleased at the level of preparation all of the students have done to prepare for this year’s concert.”
Northern Lehigh last hosted this honors festival in 2013 and previously in 2003.
The Lehigh County Honors band consists of students from the high schools in Lehigh County; Northern Lehigh, Southern Lehigh, Whitehall, Northwestern Lehigh, Catasauqua, Salisbury, Allentown Central Catholic, Parkland, Dieruff and William Allen High School.
The students are selected to represent their schools by the Lehigh County Band Directors Association in December.
The festival concert requires 20 hours of rehearsal by the students and band directors.
Selections for this year’s concert are: “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “Dusk,” “The Last to Defend,” Music from “The Incredibles,” “Arabian Dances,” “Second Suite for Military Band,” “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Locomotion” and “Thunderer March.”
