Bringing Joy
Choral Society joined by bell choir, students
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The Mission Valley Choral Society presents their annual Christmas program.
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Audience members applaud performances Sunday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
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Copeland Memorial Ringers Joyce Kackmann, left, and Lindsay Castrillo play handbells.
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Vocalists in Polson High School’s 16-member Connection group perform on Sunday.
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POLSON — Bells were ringing and folks were singing in the season in Polson as the Mission Valley Choral Society presented its annual Christmas Concert to a packed house at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Sunday.
The Copeland Memorial Ringers joined the choir, led by longtime Polson High School band director Bob Mazurek. Now retired, Mazurek has led the bell choir for about a year.
“The girls are teaching me techniques of ringing,” he said. “They help me and I help them.”
The bell choir sound, he said, is a “moving type of music; very spiritual.”
Each ringer plays two to four bells with each bell resonating one note. Bell ringer Lindsay Castrillo, who has been with the group for three years, of bells.
“We are all different keys on a human piano,” she said. “We have to be really coordinated so it sounds cohesive.”
PHS students in the extracurricular, auditioned 16-member choral group “Connection” performed as well, adding humorous touches and rich voices to the classic concert.
Director Kaylee Schubert said her group practices twice a week, and hoped the audience was excited by the students’ performance.
Solo performances were sung by Olivia Hewston and Joyce Kackmann with flute solos by Heidi Sturm. Angela Claver was the piano accompanist. Rachel Lonnevik sang a humorous parody, “The Twelve Days After Christmas.” Choral Society director Mason Niblack said he was glad to have the bell and Connection choirs join the concert, which ended on a rousing “Joy to the World.”
