Music

Music is a fundamental building block of the School’s community life together. The music program seeks to instill a deep and abiding respect for the role music can play in each person’s life. All students take music.

St. Paul’s provides a combination of vocal, instrumental, and percussive musical opportunities. The program features K-2, third, 4-5, and sixth grade choirs, as well as conga drumming and percussion. To listen to the sixth grade choir practice for an October 10, 2008 appearance at How Sweet the Sound at the Oracle Arena, click here: Sixth Grade Choir Rehearsal with Melanie DeMore.

The after school instrumental music program includes classes in brass, violin, and woodwinds, as well as band. To listen to the band, click here: St. Paul's Band 2008..

St. Paul’s students perform world music from many different cultures, including Arabic, African American, Afro-Cuban, American Jazz and Swing, Brazilian, European, Ghanan, Japanese, Jewish, Latin, Native American, Swahili, and Trinidadian. The many styles and options encourage students to develop their personal musical identities.

Students perform at five concerts each year: Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day, Holiday Concert, African American Cultural Night, Spring Concert, and Eighth Grade Graduation. These venues also invite students who study music outside of School to perform as well.

Weekly Chapel gives the entire School community the opportunity to sing together with music thematically linked to the class presentation for the week. The songs span a wide variety of sacred and secular music from many different cultures and time periods.