Update: We’re pleased to update this post with the happy news that Debbie Galusha later agreed to stay with MFS. She and Rick are now Co-Directors of the school: Debbie focussing on academics, Rick on External Relations. It’s a fantastic fit, building on each director’s strengths. (more…)
Category: Featured
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Celebrating the end of the semester
On December 12th, 2014 our school and community got together to celebrate the end of the first semester. Each class did a short presentation (a song, drama or story) and we enjoyed having some of our Friends and community members joining us for such joyful celebration.
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MFS expands its sports program
Monteverde Friends School has expanded its sports program as a way of giving back to our community and to support the healthy development of our youth. This has been very successful. We feel proud and we look forward to keep our doors open to the kids from our community that want to participate on our sports program.
Our girls team is an example of the blend between our students and other girls from our community. -
Germantown Friends at Monteverde Friends
On March, 25th, the Germantown Friends School Choir visited Monteverde Friends School and performed a great concert that was free and open to the community.
The concert program featured Maurice Durufle’s Requiem, newly re-scored for choir and string orchestra. It also included Eric William Barnum’s Afternoon on a Hill, folksongs from Bosnia, Ireland, Haiti and Costa Rica, and contemporary Gospel selections.
The Germantown Friends School Choir is an ensemble of 45 students selected by audition from grades 10-12. Directed by Stephen Kushner, the Choir performs frequently throughout the year, often collaborating with many of Philadelphia’s leading professional musicians. Recently, the group has performed with the Singing City Choir, with members of the Philadelphia Pops Orchestra, and with the Yale Glee Club. They have also sung the Philadelphia premiere of “somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon.
The GFS Choir has a long tradition of travelling nationally and internationally, including concert tours to China, England, Scotland, France, Scandinavia, Canada, Poland, Russia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Puerto Rico. In 2008, the Choir toured the southern United States, culminating in an extended stay in New Orleans where, in addition to their concert, the students volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, helping to rebuild homes that were destroyed in hurricane Katrina. This was the Choir’s first tour to Costa Rica and they stoped by MFS to share their talents and friendship.
