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Build It and
They Will Come
They Will Come
The Performing Arts Center Celebrates its Third Anniversary
by Thea Sullivan
It is 7:30 on a chilly Thursday morning. Campus is quiet; classes won’t begin for another hour. But outside the choral music room,thereisasmallmountainofstudentbackpacks. Inside,theroom is filled to capacity with high school students, and they are all looking awake and intent, and singing beautifully.
This is the Priory’s Concert Choir, led by energetic and passionate choral teacher Tina Paulson, who recently brought a smaller choral group in front of an audience of 4,000 at the National Association of Independent Schools and received a standing ovation. “When I started four years ago,” she says, “Concert Choir had forty, forty-five kids. When it got to sixty, I thought, ‘This is awesome! It’s not going to get any bigger than this.’”
