Although students will no longer be performing during a 13-day trip during interterm, the January trip will still be made.

Instead of singing, however, students on the trip will be learning about music and history instead.

“I’m a music major, so I was like really excited to perform in all of the different places,” junior Kat Niehues said. “I’m not as excited for it, because obviously I don’t get to sing and play or anything, but we’re still going to go to the same places, like the same music buildings, so I’m still excited to see all of that stuff.”

The original plan for the trip was to have choir members perform while touring Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Matthew Potterton, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities, would have led the original choir trip.

The group would have spent three nights in Prague, three nights in Vienna, two nights in Salzburg, Germany, and three nights in Munich.

The group was going to have guided tours in each city and would have visited the Mozart Museum in Salzburg. The group would have attended an opera or concert, visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and performed almost 10 times, along with taking part in other activities.

However, there were not enough people interested in going on the trip when it was exclusively available for choir members.

Instead of reimbursing the students who did want to go on the trip, Trilla Lyerla, professor of music and chair of the music and theater department, searched for another professor to take the students.

Assistant Professor of Music Robin Liston will now take students to the same cities in Europe for a non-singing historical tour using the same itinerary.

“After I picked my chin up off the floor, I said ‘My gosh, are you serious,'” Liston said. “I’ve never taken a trip abroad like that with students. I knew I would always love it, but still, in the first part of my career it’s not really on my agenda for immediately and I thought I would need a lot of help getting ready for something like that.”

Senior Courtney West is excited about the trip because it is no longer based around performing.

“We’ll have time to see sites and see different things and not have to focus so much on the performing aspect of it,” West said. “There would be the possibility of having a rehearsal … but now we will be able to focus on being there and seeing the culture.”

Although to some there is a heightened interest in a historical tour of the European cities rather than a performing tour, others were more excited for the performing aspect of the trip.

As of Tuesday, Liston said eight students are planning to attend the interterm trip.

“I’m hearing rumblings that there are more,” Liston said. “The last number I heard is that it’ll take 15 to make it go, but I’m going to talk to the tour manager because I have a feeling that they will work with us.”