Tech & Apollo Join Forces For Virtual Choir Performance
The Tech and Apollo High School choirs teamed up to perform a song together, virtually in a new four-and-a-half-minute video posted online.
They chose to sing the song Beautiful City written by Steven Schwartz and aar. Mar Huff. The neat thing about the video is, each student recorded their voice part from a different location within the community.
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The YouTube video reveals each student on-screen, some singing from the classroom while others are performing from their bedrooms. Even though they re not in the same room with each other, their voices are completely in synch with the group.
Students serenade retiring Minnesota professor: He helped build a university A half-century of students paid a virtual pandemic homage while nearly 100 former faculty and students watched via computer. February 24, 2021 5:08am
Video (02:06) : After 52 years as choral director for the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John s University, Axel Theimer will retire. Over 200 of his former students contributed their voices which Theimer helped grow in a surprise video tribute. Text size Copy shortlink:
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Axel Theimer knew something was up.
A bouquet of flowers that was supposed to arrive at his house had instead arrived at his office. It was a congratulatory bouquet for his impending retirement after 52 years as a music professor and director of the chamber choir at St. John s University and College of St. Benedict.