A Musical Potpourri in Store at Woodlands Academy Fall Concert

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The Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart Music Department presents its Cabaret fall concert at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19. This annual event, held in the cafeteria at the school, 760 E. Westleigh Road in Lake Forest, is open to the public free of charge as a means of spotlighting this year?s Fine Arts students. Choral groups Kaleidoscope, JV-Kaleidoscope (A Choir'd Taste), the Performing Arts chorus and Microscope will perform numbers that are light-hearted in nature. Selections include the ?60s hit ?Sweet Talkin? Guy," ?Out of My Dreams? from ?Oklahoma? and a medley of Carole King songs. The student-led Microscope under the direction of Marissa Howe, a senior from Hoffman Estates, will perform selections including the Beatles hit ?Penny Lane.? Other performances will include small group ensembles, vocal and instrumental soloists including a cello solo, ?Hungarian Rhapsody Opus 68? by Stjepan Hauser, performed by senior Willa Hart of Winnetka. Student accompanists this year are junior Shiyu Wang, sophomore Qui Ran Dong, junior Haiqing Gong and freshman Zhou Sha from China, and junior Caylee Hamilton from Wadsworth. The concert is under the direction of Elizabeth Kurowski, director of choral music at Woodlands Academy, and Lauren Moldenhauer, director of instrumental music. For more information, visit woodlandsacademy.org ### Founded in 1858, Woodlands Academy is an independent Catholic college preparatory day and boarding high school for young women, and part of a worldwide network of Sacred Heart Schools that spans the United States and 40 other countries. A nonprofit, Woodlands Academy?s identity is rooted in Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat?s desire to inspire young hearts and minds to excel, to lead lives of integrity and to serve. For more information about Woodlands Academy, please visit www.woodlandsacademy.org