Monday, November 30, 2009

Last week was an extremely busy week for the music dept.! On Tuesday morning, the choir was recorded for the DuTrac sponsored radio spots. The choir recorded "Good News" and "The Lord Has Come". Recording takes extreme patience. Miss Wightman was recording us, which we really appreciated. We both wanted the best possible recording, but weren't expecting perfection. However, we needed to try several times to get the recording we thought best showed off our students' talent. We hope everyone will be pleased with the end result when they get to hear our choir. Our broadcasting times are as follows: Dec. 6 @ 6:35 a.m.; Dec. 13 @ 7:35 p.m.; Dec. 21 @ 11:35 a.m. and Dec. 23 @ 2:35 p.m.

Our choir sings this Sunday, Dec. 6 @ 2:00 at the Washington Park Gazebo when the Nativity scene is blessed. We'd like the choir students to arrive at 1:50. We'll sing the songs that we recorded plus some traditional Christmas carols. Afterwards, everyone is invited to the KC Hall for hot beverages and cookies. We hope it is not too cold.

The choir will sing first at the 1st & 2nd grade Christmas program which will be Dec. 14th at 2:00 and 7:00. The choir is asked to wear red shirts, red turtlenecks or red sweatshirts for the afternoon performance and dress up for the evening program.

Recording tomorrow Nov. 23, 2009

The students are very excited to actually be recording tomorrow. Ms. Wightman will be assisting us.
I learned that we cannot put audio clips on this blog site. I know some parents were really hoping that would be possible. Hopefully, we'll get some pictures one of these days.

Amazing Children - 11/18/09

Thank you parents for your flexibility last week with our different rehearsal schedule!
Our sectionals last week really paid off! By working with each part separately for one rehearsal, the students became more confident on their parts. Part 1 actually had a new section to learn while part 2 just needed to learn a new ending. This past Tuesday when all 70 of us were back together, we put the 2 parts together and they did a fantastic job! It only took a couple tries and they were successful. I was so proud of them! Next Tuesday, Nov. 24th, we record for the DuTrac sponsored radio spots. Please make sure your singers are there punctually. When I know our air times, I'll share them with you.

Andrea Rouchka, a Loras College music ed. major, was with us Tuesday as we put the 2 sections together. Andrea has been observing me teaching music for about a month, but this was her first experience hearing the choir. She was very impressed with their sound and how successful the students were in putting the parts together.

Thank you so much to the seven ladies who have volunteered to be our "Choir Moms"! I feel so blessed to have these seven ladies willing to assist me and the choir.

The choir will be performing at the Gr. 1 & 2 Christmas program on Dec. 14th at 2:00 & 7:00. We look forward to sharing our songs with you!