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Photos by Kate Dennison, Joshua Duclos, and Kim Gerighty
SPRING Globetrotting
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tudent musicians traveled the globe during spring vacation, welcoming new students and embracing new cultures. Headmaster Temba Maqubela and the Groton School Chamber Music Tour greeted parents, alumni, and friends in Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong in mid-March. Student musicians, led by Director of Instrumental Music Mary Ann Lanier, performed at each reception. Throughout Asia, the receptions welcomed newly admitted families as well — part of the new Groton Embrace Tour, which also reached out to families considering Groton in Chicago, New York, Raleigh (NC), and San Francisco. While instrumentalists were playing, Groton’s singers were on tour, too. The Groton School
Choir traveled to South Africa, where they visited Johannesburg, Cape Town, George, and Port Elizabeth and, under the guidance of Choral Director Dan Moriarty, performed alongside the South Cape Children’s Choir, the Loreto High School Choir, and the Kensington Chorale (as well as a special appearance at a celebration of the marriage of the Maqubelas’ son). Interspersed with performances were tours of Robben Island, Table Mountain, and Nelson Mandela’s house in Soweto, as well as a trip to a wildlife reserve and botanical garden. Not all the student travelers this spring were musicians. A Global Education Opportunity (GEO) took twelve students to France for language and cultural immersion, including a home stay and classes in the Loire Valley and visits to many of Paris’ iconic sites.
1 The Headmaster and student musicians greeting newly admitted students in Shanghai 2 Ivana Primero ’17, Julien Lee Heberling ’19, and Montanna Riggs ’19 performing in Shanghai 3 When in Paris… sing karaoke. 4 Groton’s Choir performing with the South Cape Children’s Chorus at the cathedral in George, South Africa 5 A beach break for the Choir at Cape Point, South Africa 6 The Eiffel Tower during a tour of Paris by night 7 French students at the Chateau de Villandry’s gardens in the Loire Valley 8 Michael Senko ’18 on the Choir tour to South Africa 9 Student chamber musicians in Seoul
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