Revere High School’s (RHS) choir program held its annual senior spotlight performance to honor and highlight the seniors before graduation.
Every year in the spring, the choir program at RHS hosts a senior spotlight event to showcase its graduating seniors. The 2025 concert took place on April 24. The seniors have an option to perform a solo song of their choosing, although this is not mandatory. This year, majority of the choir seniors sung a solo. After all of the seniors sing their solos, they then perform a song all together.
While a song is being picked, consideration is encouraged to be given to the message that is intended to be left behind for the staff and underclassmen. Choir director Sierra Pabon explained the purpose of the spotlight concert.
“They dress up all nice and they get their performance just to highlight all the seniors that we have and all of the talent. It is nice to pay that set of respect and some appreciation,” she said.
Senior Lily Dunn has been an active choir program member since middle school. Dunn participates in all three choirs at RHS: Symphonic, Reverse Acappella and Chorale. She talked about the process of choosing her senior song, My Love by Sia, featured in the movie Eclipse from the Twilight Saga.
“I have thought about [the song] a lot, but I could never really pick one until there was a deadline. Some people have known what song they are going to [perform] for years,” Dunn said
The seniors’ last goodbyes to the program can carry emotional weight because it recognizes their friendship, achievements, and growth from their time with RHS’s choirs, which they share with the audience one last time.
“A lot of the time [the song] does not have to be sad. It is not just something that makes you feel things. Some people choose to do a goodbye song because that is what it is about. It is about giving the seniors a farewell, and that can be sad,” Dunn said.
The last song of the concert, the group number sung by all senior choir members, is also special to the graduating seniors. The seniors work together to choose the song, making it special to that group of students.
“We have around twelve to sixteen [seniors], and the performances are all under five minutes. And the seniors, every year, bring back a song that they did at one point together,” Pabon said.
Ethan Leigh, another senior choir member, and the tenor section leader, explains the preparation and meanings to the senior spotlight. Seniors have the option to include other choir members in their spotlight performance and Leigh chose to do that for his.
“My sister included me in her [senior spotlight song], and I wanted to do that with someone else. I included the tenor [section] and rewrote the lyrics to the song [I was performing]. It was goofy but amazing,” he said.
Leigh chose his spotlight song because of its humor. He reworded the song You’ll be Back from the Hamilton soundtrack to talk about how much the tenor section will miss him when he graduates.
All three RHS choirs had their spring concert in early May. In the past, the choir spring concert and senior spotlight were held simultaneously, but this year, the two separated to cut down the length of it and to give the seniors own their concert.
“On May 6 we [had] our full spring concert,” Pabon said.
Eleven out of the twelve choir seniors performed their own song at the senior spotlight performance. The group then performed Loch Lomond by Johnathan Quick all together at the end of the concert. Last week, both Symphonic and Chorale received superior ratings at the senior’s last state contests, and all choir members performed in the spring concert on May 6.
