HUNTERDON CENTRAL REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

and the students had dinner together, and then performed in the stands for the football game. They also
performed a piece on the field with the MRD.
The MRD participated in the State Football Game at Rutgers University.
The Marching Red Devils were featured in the Hunterdon County Holiday Parade.
Music Department participated in its annual “Day of Music” where 8 th grade music students from all four
sending districts came to the high school and our Music Department put on a performing demonstration for
them.
The Winds of the Pit Orchestra participated in the Town Caroling.
The Pit Orchestra (entirely made up of curricular-orchestra students) performed all music for the musical “Guys
and Dolls”. The group also performed at The Jenny Haver Revue.
The Marching Red Devils and members of the Orchestra program – 208 students in all – traveled to Orlando
Florida to take part in the Disney Performing Arts Program. (This was the largest multi-overnight trip done by
Hunterdon Central Instrumental groups to date). During the week, the Marching Band marched down Main
Street USA and the Magic Kingdom, and also participated in an Instrumental and Color Guard workshop. The
Orchestra students performed a concert on the Waterfront Stage in Downtown Disney. They also participated
in an Instrumental Workshop.
Devil’s Cabaret featured performances by the Jazz Band, Madrigal Girls, Fiddle Club, and many individual
music students performing on their own.
The full Orchestra performed a pre-graduation concert.
Throughout the year – the Fiddle Club (made up of students in both fall and spring curricular orchestras)
performed 16 times throughout the community.
Two to three times per year, the Instrumental classes are combined with Mr. Wendt’s Physics classes to do a
joint – lesson on acoustics/jazz, utilizing individual participation, as well as performing for the students as a
trombone/piano duet.
Students in the Theater classes had an opportunity to participate in a Shakespeare Residency Program with Jim
Jack from the George Street Playhouse. The residency was funded by a grant from the HC Foundation.
Honor’s Theater students performed at the Thespian inductions.
Mr. Bernet attended a film seminar in the Teachers as Scholars program in which we studied American political
films. He then utilized that information and articles he’d read in the Honors Film class, studying The
Manchurian Candidate and incorporating that into a larger context of two other films related to communism and
the cold war.
New Program Highlights
There were no new programs offered this year.
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