Choral dept. helps others

SEYMOUR, TN — This year the Seymour High School Choral
Department joined forces with other choirs to give back to the
community.

SHS performed with the choir from St. John’s Episcopal Church,
Transformed (an interdenominational seminar and conversation
group), and members of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra to present
“Handel’s Messiah” and Robert Shaw’s “The Many Moods of
Christmas.”

The four groups divided the proceeds from the concert and SHS’s
portion went to the Volunteer Ministry Center and a music
scholarship for a SHS senior.

With help of the supportive community, the chorus raised just
over $2,000 for the causes.

This is the second year that the choir has presented a
concert to fight hunger and to support an upcoming music major.

Last year the choir also raised over $2,000 and gave the Sevier
County Food Bank $1,000, while awarding Cody Galyon and Katie
Merrell, now freshmen at the University of Tennessee, $500
each.