The Love Concert: Sounds of Spring
A group of singers in nice white shirts and jeans stand on stage, a soloist stands at a microphone at the front of the stage. The backdrop is gold and blue.
The lights get brigter during "Keren Or," in parallel to the song's tone of hope
Musical Director: Adena Korn
Lighting Designer: Carlin Greenfield
Venue: The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, Roanna Shorofsky Theater
Photography by Gabe Godin via heschel.org
The Heschel Harmonizers' Spring Concert featured a combination of modern songs and Jewish choral music, from Michael Buble’s "Everything" to "Keren Or," a Hebrew song about shining the light of hope in dark times, and featured the Heschel Lower School’s a cappella group, The Heschel Half Notes, directed by Naomi Cohen.
The challenge was differentiating between the songs performed. I had only one vertical and four horizontal zones on the cyc so my choices were limited. I worked with the choir's muscial director to think about the different feelings evoked by each song and tried to give each a unique look. I also used the upstage-most row of frontlights to create background "hills" on some of the songs.
A group of people in nice white shirts and jeans stand on stage with their arms around each other posing for a picture. The background is spring green with a pink edge.
Spring green and soft pink provide a backdrop for the photo call.
A large group of singers in nice white shirts and jeans stand on stage, a soloist stands at a microphone at the front of the stage. There are two other small mic stands and two large choir mic stands. The Musical Director conducts from the pit in front of the stage. The backdrop is pink and orange with blue edges.
Splashes of yellow and pink reflect the lively enerergy Michael Buble's "Everything."