By News Editors Olivia Augustine and Kaitlyn Goldberg and Entertainment Editor Reilly Hungerford

The Jonathan Law music department recently performed at the CMEA Regionals Festival at Francis T. Maloney High school on January 13 and 14. 

Regionals is a music festival that members of choir and band can audition for. If they qualify, they can go to the festival, which is a two-day long event where songs are rehearsed and performed.

Students in band are able to choose if they would like to audition for Regionals, while students in the advanced vocal ensemble class must audition for Regionals.

“Most of my students who audition for Regionals prepare with a private teacher,” Law Band Director Mr. Pelaggi said. “I always listen to their audition materials before their auditions, but most students prepare with a private instructor on their specific instrument.”

A lot of preparation goes into preparing for rRgionals to make sure students can perform to the best of their abilities. 

“To prepare for Regionals, we had to learn five songs on our own and practice as much as possible,” said senior Marisa Laviano, who participated in regionals.

Some of the audition pieces have been around for years. 

“I have been aware of all the audition pieces since freshman year, since CMEA keeps them posted online,” junior Chris Rickard said. “I learned all of them in middle school and Freshman year, and just had to refine parts to be ‘by the book. In addition, I would spend some nights just doing all the scales in different keys, and end with some endurance building, all of the pieces are challenging in their own respect, and always need work.”

Members of the Law ensemble were proud of they way the group performed.

“I thought our choir members performed very well and were leaders in their respective ensembles,” senior Kalli Kinsman said.