Children’s Choral Arts Festival brings the peace post-Sandy
A very lively and spirited bunch of smiling faces patiently await their moment in the spotlight. It’s almost show time for the talented children of Leif Ericson Day School, Saint Saviour Catholic Academy, and the Children’s Chorus of Bay Ridge.
Dozens of parents, children, and involved community members filed into Bay Ridge’s Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd on Sunday, January 27, 2013. The Fourth Avenue church, with its beautiful stained glass windows and intricately sculpted décor, seemed to provide the perfect setting for the Second Annual Children’s Choral Arts Festival for Peace—A Hurricane Sandy Relief Benefit Concert.
Directors of the show, Rita Pihra-Majurinen and Julia Hurn, regard this concert as an “exercise in peacebuidling.” The two musically-inclined women met at a drumming workshop some years ago and through their shared belief that “music is for everybody,” became best friends.