LAS VEGAS – Cue the lights and fly the flag. This April Faith Lutheran High School’s show choir and Conservatory dancers will step up and step out to honor America.
Revelation, the school’s honors show choir, and the school’s Dance Conservatory will present The Dance Event Plus at 7 p.m. April 4, featuring a tribute to America, VIP guests and local armed forces veterans.
The event will honor Jack Holder, a distinguished World War II Veteran, and one of the few remaining Pearl Harbor Survivors. Holder was on duty at Ford Island that Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, when 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor.
Jack can still see the face of the Japanese pilot whose machine gun fire barely missed shooting him and his mates as they hid in plain sight in a sewer ditch. After the first attack was over, he began repairing nearby PBYs and loading bombs in anticipation for takeoff to hunt down the Japanese aircraft which had just crippled his fleet. He can still see images of the 2,403 Americans who were killed, and the 19 US Navy ships destroyed or damaged that day.
Following the Pearl Harbor Attack, Jack flew in well over 100 US Navy missions in World War II.
Faith Lutheran will present the 75-minute show in the school’s state-of-the-art 800-seat chapel and performing arts center. The show will feature the presentation of a Pearl Harbor memorial flag, which Revelation folded on the bow of the USS Missouri, to Faith Lutheran administrators.
The USS Missouri, nicknamed the Mighty Mo, was the last U.S. battleship built and the last to be decommissioned. Japan’s surrender on the ship’s deck ended World War II.
Revelation visited the USS Missouri in Hawaii in December for events marking the 80th anniversary of Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor, which ushered the United States into World War II.
On Dec. 7, Revelation, launched at Faith Lutheran three years ago, represented Nevada at the 80th anniversary Pearl Harbor Commemoration Concert Series in Honolulu. The show choir performed outdoors at the USS Bowfin, a U.S. Navy submarine, to a packed hotel audience in downtown Honolulu and at a wreath laying at the Bob Hope Memorial Exhibition at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Hickam, Hawaii.
Between performances, Faith Lutheran students interacted with U.S. armed forces veterans, thanking them for their personal sacrifice and service to country.
“It was a powerful reminder that live performance is a privilege, and a means to boost morale,” Faith Lutheran Fine Arts Dean Dr. Emily Slater said.
Revelation’s April 4 performance will include the song and dance set from the Pearl Harbor Commemoration Concert Series.
Revelation’s members represent a wide cross-section of Faith Lutheran’s students including Conservatory of the Fine Arts, STEM-subject (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students and varsity athletes. The group has performed with “America’s Got Talent” Season 13 finalist and Caesars Palace headliner Daniel Emmet and with Mastro Productions, winner of the 2018’s Best Feature Documentary at New York’s Bushwick Film Festival.
In 2021, Revelation recorded and filmed Deke Sharon’s then-unpublished new arrangement of “Get’Cha Head in the Game,” a song from the 2006 Disney Channel movie megahit “High School Musical.” When the song’s new version was released in March, it went viral on Instagram and Facebook.
Sharon was music director and arranger for two of the three “Pitch Perfect” movies, starring Rebel Wilson and Anna Kendrick, and was music director, arranger, coach, and consultant for ABC television’s “The Sing-Off.” He also founded Disney’s a cappella recording group, DCapella.
Faith Lutheran’s Dance Conservatory includes hundreds of students who take weekly classes and 36 dedicated Conservatory majors, who receive elite technical training and quality performance and competition opportunities. Conservatory graduates have performed on Broadway in New York City, in Disneyland/Disney World show casts and as professional cheerleaders for the National Football League’s Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers and Arizona Cardinals.
Tickets to the April 4 show are $5. Click here for tickets.
About Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School
Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School is Nevada’s largest private school and the largest Lutheran school in the United States, serving more than 1,900 students from the Las Vegas Valley and abroad.
The school, on a 50-acre state-of-the-art campus near Downtown Summerlin, offers advanced middle school and high school college preparatory curriculum and extensive athletic, fine arts, and after school activities in a distinctively Christian environment.
Faith Lutheran’s unique high school academies program includes Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Justice & Advocacy, Business & Entrepreneurship, Film & Broadcast, Hospitality & Tourism, Christ Academy, Oder Family Flight Academy and the Conservatory of Fine Arts. The school is dedicated to its mission statement of Everyone Prepared! Everyone Saved! and is fueled by its core values of Family, Academics, Innovation, Truth and High Achievement.
Faith Lutheran is accredited by AdvancED and the National Lutheran Schools Accreditation. Learn more at www.faithlutheranlv.org.
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