PHOTO BY DANNA BERTEL The Bossa Nova Chorale practices the opening song “A Million Dreams” during rehearsal.
The NSU Mako Band and the Bossa Nova Chorale are coming together to perform in the Spring Concert on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center.
Bill Adams, professor and music and theatre program director in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts, said this is the first time that the concert will be held there.
“That’s a big shift for us because it’s a traditional theater and everything is designed for the audience to be able to see and hear and for us to be positioned in such a way that it all works together,” Adams said. “We’re really super excited that it will be in the Miniaci and everybody should be able to hear and see better.”
This year’s theme revolves around the song “A Million Dreams” from the movie “The Greatest Showman.” Other songs in the concert include “Don’t Stop Believin,’” “Sweet Dreams” and “Vienna,” as well as an Abba medley. The songs were chosen to follow a theme of dreams and happiness.
“What a nice message for us to say as musicians that we would like everybody to have a million dreams. So come and enjoy the concert and just share these dreams with us,” Adams said.
Despite rehearsing separately, Mako Band and Bossa Nova Chorale are enjoying the process of coming together and rehearsing for the upcoming concert.
“It’s always really enticing and then of course, we go from a room to the actual performing space and that excitement also builds even for a lot of these students that have been doing it for years, some of them decades,” said Carlo Ricchi, adjunct faculty and director of Mako Band.
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