Bridgeport Public School was the site of the Western Trails Conference Honor Choir on Monday, November 13. Select students from the seven conference area schools came to Bridgeport for the day and spent several hours rehearsing five pieces together, under the direction of Brad Ronne. Bridgeport had the most students selected for the choir, with twenty chosen to sing in the honor chorus.
Ronne is in his 31st year of teaching music, the last eighteen years at Scottsbluff High School where he directs five choral ensembles and teaches digital audio recording in three music tech courses. He has traveled with the Nebraska Ambassadors of Music European Tour as a staff member and conductor and is a frequent adjudicator and clinician in Nebraska and Wyoming.
A concert for the public was held in the evening in front of a large audience in the school auditorium. Bridgeport Honor Choir members performed “Helpless,” featuring Delaney Pohl and Haden Rahmig, and Mileigh Krebs of Hemingford sang “Flanders Fields.”The entire honor choir sang “African Noel” and “Elijah Rock,” arranged by Victor C. Johnson, “Sound the Trumpet,” by Henry Purcell, “Ad Astra,” by Jacob Narverud, and “Free Ride,” arranged by Paul Langford.
