The Williams Bay High School Concert Choir, under the direction of choir teacher Jessical Miles, sings “Holiday Road” from the hit 1989 comedy film “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” accompanied by seniors Zach Beinetti on guitar and Alex Gumble on drums, and 23-year volunteer accompanist Sue Hoyt on piano. The Williams Bay High School Concert Choir also sang two other songs at the Dec. 20 Winter Concert, “It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas” and “A Winter Landscape.”
Williams Bay Middle School-High School chorus teacher Jessica Miles welcomes a full house of attendees to the Tuesday, Dec. 20 Winter Concert in the Lecture Center at Williams Bay High School. Pianist Sue Hoyt (not pictured) provided instrumental accompaniment to the performing choirs, including the Sixth Grade Choir, Grades 7-8 Choir, High School Vocal Jazz Choir and High School Concert Choir, as well as a program-ending combined Grades 6-12 Choir.
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Williams Bay High School junior Brooke Peyer, a member of the school’s 7-student vocal jazz choir, provides a background introduction of the choir’s performance of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” at the school’s Dec. 21 Winter Concert.
Williams Bay High School senior Isaac Lensmith drew enthusiastic applause for his bass narration of the Vocal Jazz Choir’s performance of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” at the Dec. 20 Winter Concert. The popular Christmas song was originally written by famed children’s book author and illustrator Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel and composed by Albert Hague for the 1966 animated TV special “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Right: The Williams Bay Middle School-High School Winter Concert on Dec. 20 ended with Grades 6-12 choir students coming together to sing the popular Christmas carol, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”
Accompanied by pianist Sue Hoyt and directed by choir teacher Jessica Miles, Williams Bay Middle School’s 20-student Sixth Grade Choir kicked off the joint Dec. 20 Williams Bay Middle School-High School Winter Concert with the singing of “Lights of Hanukkah” and “Where Are You Christmas.”
Performing under the direction of choir teacher Jessica Miles and accompanied by pianist Sue Hoyt, Williams Bay Middle School’s 16-student Grades 7-8 Choir sang three selections at the Dec. 20 concert at Williams Bay High School—“Happy Holiday/White Christmas,” “Riu Riu Chiu” and “Text Me Merry Christmas.”
The Williams Bay Vocal Jazz Choir, under the direction of choir teacher Jessica Miles and accompanied by pianist Sue Hoyt, performed three songs at the Dec. 20 Winter Concert—“A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” featuring vocal narration by bass Isaac Lensmith (standing at right).
