(VIDEO) Hopkins Students Audition for Singing 'Heart-O-Grams'

Valentine’s may be a day of love, but at , it’s also a day of music.

Groups of students deliver singing “Heart-O-Grams” as part of a fundraiser that brings in money for the school’s choir program.

The tradition started back in the 1970s and has continued every year since. Students pick romantic songs, rearrange them to their liking and then audition for a chance to be a Heart-O-Gram group.

“They might do it as an a cappella song. They might have a guitar player and then sing a lot of it,” said Philip Brown, the school’s director of choral activities. “They form their own arrangements. It’s completely all work that they do.”

Students buy the Heart-O-Grams for $2. The singing groups then deliver the musical messages throughout Valentine’s Day.

“It’s good for us, but it also is a fun way just to kind of change things up one day throughout the year, Brown said.