The new Language and Performing Arts Center will be the largest concentration of classrooms in the Upper School, but the Middle School faculty don’t want to be left out of this project. After all, the Middle School band and choir will rehearse and perform in the new building.

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“To say that the current study hall/choir room/drama space is an effective performance space is humorous, unless it is for sentimental reasons or for the opportunity to see creativity in survival mode,” says Judy Herrington, Lower School music teacher and founder and director of the Tacoma Youth Chorus. She’s got a real point, but listening to the Upper School choirs perform at their winter concert, you would have no idea the conditions in which they rehearse.

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