When February rolls around and Valentine’s Day slowly approaches, Los Altos High School’s students can reliably expect one thing: a choir bursting into their classrooms and belting love songs a cappella.
Valentine’s serenades, a yearly tradition done by the Los Altos High choir department, allow students to purchase five-dollar serenades of various songs to be sung to their peers during class. Whether it be last year’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” or this year’s “BIRDS OF A FEATHER,” the choir brings all kinds of musical options to embarrass or swoon fellow students.
These serenades are usually performed by the choir department’s most advanced class, Volare, but have started to include other audition choir classes in more recent years, according to Los Altos High choir teacher Lauren Diez. The serenades also provide fundraising for the choir department…