Mr. Greenwood conducts orchestra. (Melanie Q./Staff) Academy’s Advanced Orchestra traveled to Upper Arlington on March 4 to perform at the Central Ohio String Festival, a two-day event that featured 30 orchestras playing pieces for judges and receiving a ranking from I (superior) to V. Afterward, the judges provided feedback about the performances in a clinic…

(Cami S.) Music filled Academy’s halls on  Tuesday, February 28, as both the Upper School choirs and the band had their winter concerts.  The night began at 7:00 p.m. in the Schoedinger Theater with the choir concert, featuring both of the Upper School choirs, Camerata and Treble Choir. For the past few months, the choirs…

(Wikimedia Commons) In 2019, Knives Out blended thriller with comedy and romance. By popular demand, director Rian Johnson set out on creating a sequel: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Released to Netflix on December 23, 2022, the film racked up over 209 million hours of viewership in fewer than two weeks.  Tech billionaire Miles…

(Cami S.) Academy’s orchestra performed its annual winter concert on February 15, 2023, directed by Mr. Greenwood and assistant lower school director, Dr. Lee.  The concert began at 6:30 p.m. in the Schoedinger Theater, beginning with the Upper School Concert Orchestra’s “Wired” by L. Bernofsky, a piece with a high-tempo score that excited the audience,…

Orange Flag (Courtesy/Jeremy Morgan) Columbus Academy welcomed the Billy Rhinehart exhibit to Morris Hall Art Gallery On February 7 and will run through March 17. An Athens, Ohio native, Rhinehart is a wood carver whose focus for the past thirty years has been creating hand-painted guitars.  This exhibit features seventeen of Rhinehart’s guitars, including Orange…

Courtesy/ Jess S. The Lincoln Center Orchestra performs “Happy Birthday.”  Academy’s Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jessica Sneeringer, were guests at Wynton Marsalis’s award-winning Jazz Band on February 9, 2023.   A graduate of Juilliard, Marsalis has won a Pulitzer and nine Grammys. These days, one can find Marsalis leading the premier Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra…

(Courtesy/Nishtha P., Yuvraj T., Ethan K.) Canceled last year due to Covid, this year’s Winter Formal, which took place on Saturday, February 11 was highly anticipated for the upper schoolers. On January 30, The Winfo committee announced its theme as a CArnival through a video montage of scenes from The Greatest Showman. Later that week,…

(Flickr) Directed by Fahad Alammari, Alkhallat+ follows four short stories about trickery and deception. Characters find themselves in awkward situations and must weasel their way out of them before suffering consequences.  In part one, a man stumbles upon thieves stealing his tire. While he captures one of them, another accomplice tries to rescue him. Trouble…

(Flickr) It’s not every day that a popular beverage gets its own Google Doodle, but that’s what happened on Sunday, Jan. 29. The search giant celebrated bubble tea with an interactive doodle that allowed users to serve five different customers by creating virtual bubble tea according to the characters’ orders, just two years after the…

(Flickr) Academy hosts several dances for Upper Schoolers beginning with the fall Homecoming then the Winter Formal (WinFo), and finally, Spring Prom. Although Homecoming and Prom resumed after COVID-19, the last Winfo was in 2020.  Upper schoolers cheered in excitement after watching the 2023 Winfo theme reveal during assembly on January 30. The video included…