Northgate High School’s choir “Bella Voce” gets a second chance
Judges request corrected video performance
Northgate High School’s “Bella Voce” singers got a chance for a virtual performance after a few students were inadvertently left out of the November videoed show.
Eight high schools including Northgate participated in a countywide virtual singing concert sponsored by the Diablo Regional Arts Association before Thanksgiving break. The event allowed these students an opportunity to perform in a countywide musical event.
However, as previously reported, the concert wasn’t without errors and technical difficulties. A few of Bella Voce members’ videos were not a part of the final concert, in which the group performed “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” by Dolly Parton. The arts association, which sponsored and organized the event, heard about the omission and requested the missing students’ videos. The organizers remade the Bella Voce video in January to include everyone, to the pleasure of all involved.
“It was super generous of them to do it,” said Northgate High School’s choir teacher Geoff Carter. “The whole thing is beautiful. They sent it back to me and I got it and I’ve been able to share it with the girls and it’s super cool.”
The group’s performance is now available here.
Music professional Deke Sharon, known producing in Pitch Perfect and for NBC’s “The Sing-Off” professionally synthesized the individual student recordings into blended masterpieces, inserting creative visual graphics.
The overall performance — High School Notes: A Digital A Cappella Concert — also includes the Northgate Madrigals. It debuted online on Nov. 20 and the video recording is still available on YouTube by clicking here or on the Diablo Regional Arts Association’s channel. Kaiser Permanente was the title sponsor of the project and several local organizations also supported this program including Walnut Creek Downtown, the Lesher Foundation, and the Contra Costa County Office of Education.