The sound of clarinets and flutes, violins and violas could be heard from the Bishop O’Connell High School auditorium in Arlington Oct. 31, as more than 80 students prepared for the first Diocesan Honors Music Festival. While there are a number of honors festivals in the area, this festival was the first of its kind for the Diocese at the high school level. The idea for the event came about during a routine staff development meeting at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax last March, according to Bishop O’Connell Music Director Ronald Isaacson.
“We said, let’s do something diocesan-wide for all the high schools,” he said.
Read the entire story by Ashley Buyers in the Arlington Catholic Herald.
Pictured: O'Connell chorus members, Joseph Shank (left), Ava Coffin and Elise Welsh, sing in the Diocesan honors chorus Oct. 31 (photo credit: Ashley Buyers, Catholic Herald).