Press release from A.C. Reynolds High School:
The A.C. Reynolds High School Madrigal Singers, conducted by Phillip Haynie, will perform in a benefit concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at St. James Episcopal Church. A reception with tea and scones will follow in the courtyard, weather permitting, and in the parish hall otherwise.
Tickets are $15 and will be available at Visitor Information Center, Diamond Rush Jewelry in Laurel Park Village, the St. James Reception Desk and at the door.
The Madrigal Singers are an audition-only, select, advanced chamber ensemble composed of students who have spent at least a year in the A.C. Reynolds Chorale. Under Haynie’s direction for the past six years, all three choirs in the choral program at A.C. Reynolds have received consecutive superior ratings at annual North Carolina Music Educators Association Performance Adjudication.
Every year, the Madrigal Singers are featured during the holiday season Candlelight Tours at Biltmore Estate. This year the A.C. Reynolds Chorale was one of three invited to give a concert at the NCMEA professional development conference in Winston-Salem and was recognized as an exemplary program.
Haynie, who can be heard every Sunday morning leading the tenor section of the St. James Choir, served as choral director at East Henderson High School for four and a half years before becoming director of the choral program at A.C. Reynolds High School. As a performer, he has been a soloist for works that include Mozart’s “Requiem,” Handel’s “Messiah,” Holsinger’s “Easter Symphony,” Bach’s “Contatas No. 78 and 80,” Schubert’s “Mass in G.” Vaughan Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pacem,” and Willcock’s “Lux Perpetua.”
Proceeds from the concert will support the English as a Second Language program at Our Little Roses, a home for abused and abandoned girls in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The ESL program began in the fall semester of 2015 as a project of St. James after a visiting mission team learned that girls graduating from high school with English skills are better able to get jobs and become self-sufficient.
Sponsorships of $50 are invited. Sponsors will receive two tickets and special recognition as a “Friend of the Roses.”
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