Palo Alto High School’s choral groups are busy preparing for their first big performance this year: the fall concert titled “A New Love Story.”

“The fall concert is our opening event where our choir first gets the traditional performance experience,” Choir President Teddi Kalb said. “For that reason, there’s slight anxiety, but more excitement. We’ve worked hard to achieve the high expectations of our audience and the expectations we have of ourselves.”

The concert will feature Concert Choir, Madrigal Singers, Spectrum Singers, Beginning Choir and Viking Men’s Chorus, as well as solos from Paly students. The lineup includes seniors Arielle Fishman, Saira Chawla, Michileen Oberst, Teddi Kalb, Lara Cutkosky and Julia Edholm, along with juniors Paige Morkner, Elias Berezin and Thomas Wade.

The choir will be singing all 15 of Johannes Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes (Op. 65), Randall Thompson’s Alleluia and works by Carlo Gesualdo, Robert Schumann and William Byrd, as well as a selection of love songs for which the concert is named.

Choir members are excited to showcase their hard work.

“I think it will be really entertaining,” Chawla said. “We always pick challenging music which makes choir exciting.”

“[The Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes are] incredibly difficult, but incredibly rewarding,” Kalb said. “It is the most epic choral music and anyone who wants to get a sense of what choral music is about, then this is a prime opportunity to come see us on Sunday.”

The choir will be performing today at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA at 4:00 p.m. Tickets are available at the door and are $7 for adults and free for students.