Mt. Pleasant students selected for Opus Honor Choir

Five Mt. Pleasant students were recently selected for participation in the 35th annual Opus Honor Choir Festival.

Those students were ninth-grader Bryton Weir; eighth-graders Isaiah Denning, Olivia McCormick and Caleb Reyes; and seventh-grader Michael Tansey.

More than 2,100 students were nominated by their directors for 720 positions in the four Opus Honor Choirs. Selections were made by means of a recorded audition.

Guest conductors of the choirs include Nancy Ewing, LeMars Community Middle School, fifth- and sixth-grade honor choir; David Fog, retired, seventh- and eighth-grade Bass Clef Honor Choir; Cheryl Thompson, Atlantic Middle School, seventh- and eighth-grade Treble Clef Honor Choir; and Samantha Robillard, Pella High School, ninth-grade Mixed Honor Choir.

The 2021 Opus Honor Choirs will perform at 4 p.m., Nov. 18 in C.Y. Stephens Auditorium in the Iowa State Center in Ames.