HEWITT-TRUSSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL CHAMBER CHOIR


The HTHS Chamber Choir is in its third year of existence. In 2009 there was a Women’s Ensemble made up of fourteen freshmen girls and a SATB group of twenty-eight known as the HT Singers. Three years later, there is now a non- auditioned Concert Choir of sixty-seven and the auditioned twenty-four voice Chamber Choir. Our HTHS choirs are proud of their growth (42 to 91) in these three years as singing has become a more “cool” thing to do. The Chamber Choir has a busy December. They annually sing at Fox 6, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham Airport, as well as school and church appearances. Both the Concert Choir and Chamber Choir have scored Superior ratings at State Assessment and will participate this year. HTHS is always represented at All-State Choral Festival as well.


D. Allen Gillespie is in his thirty-ninth year of teaching choral music. After retiring at the end of thirty-five years of full time teaching, he began a partime tenure at Hewitt-Trussville High School. The department has more than doubled in the last three years. The non-auditioned Concert Choir has sixty-seven with the select Chamber Choir numbering twenty-four. Allen holds a BME, MME, and Ed.S Certification in Music all from the University of Montevallo. He is a past president of the Alabama Vocal Association and the Alabama Choral Directors Association. He is Music Director at Huffman United Methodist Church and has been involved with the music production in The Miss Alabama Pageant for the past 26 years. His wife, Sula is a Pediatric Nurse Practioner at The Children's Hospital of Alabama. Their son, Desi is a seventh grade "sax and piano man" who sings as well.


Concert Program Friday, Jan. 11, 9:15 A.M.


1) Il est bel et bon Pierre Passereau...........................arr. John Leavitt....................................... Hal Leonard 08596795 1:35 2) Sicut Cervus..........................................Giovanni Palestrina, ed. Robert Hufstader........Theodore Presser 352-00075 2:45 3) O Mistress Mine..............................................Ralph Vaughn Williams....................................ECS Publishing 1.5017 1:10 4) Sing Me to Heaven.................................................Daniel E. Gawthrop.................................Dunstan House DH9101 3:40 5)Shenandoah....................................................Traditional, arr. Darmon Meader...........................Carl Fischer CM8805 4:25 6)Hush! Somebody's Callin' My Name............Traditional arr. Brazeal Dennard...................................Shawnee A1802 4:05 7)Ni Jina Gan..................................................Israel Kagaruki arr. Eugene Rogers.....................Hal Leonard 08750935 3:05 8)Sinnuh Man..................................................................Kenny Potter....................................Hinshaw Music HMC1720 1:50


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