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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR MADRIGALS.... AHS Madrigals is in a contest with B98fm radio to win radio air time on Christmas Day. Please  VOTE HERE   daily between now and Dec. 18. FINALS PERFORMANCES:  AHS Finals Week - Community Performance Tour Voce @ Caroling (various locations) Old School Edition @ Cottonwood Elementary (Tuesday 12/20 11am) Madrigals @ Martin Elementary (Tuesday 12/20 1pm) Concert Choir @ Wheatland Elementary (Wed 12/21 9:15am) This week in AHS Choirs: Monday - Review for Finals Performances Tuesday - 1st, 4th & 5th hour finals (see times above) Wednesday - 3rd hour finals (see time above) This week in AMS Choirs: Holiday Karaoke & Caroling Songs Last Day School Activities

Time is flying by and Winter Break will be here before we know it. AHS Madrigals is in a contest with B98fm radio to win radio air time on Christmas Day. Please  VOTE HERE   daily between now and Dec. 18. UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:  AHS Choir Concert Tuesday, December 13th 7:30pm AHS Auditorium Poinsettia Delivery AHS Winter Wishes Deliveries Madrigals deliver Sing-a-grams during 4th & 5th hrs Wednesday to those who purchased from StuCo AHS Finals Week - Community Performance Tour Voce @ TBA Old School Edition @ Cottonwood Elementary (Tuesday 12/20 11am) Madrigals @ Martin Elementary (Tuesday 12/20 1pm) Concert Choir @ Wheatland Elementary (Wed 12/21 9:15am) This week in AHS Choirs: Monday - Concert Rehearsal (all choirs will meet during advisory to practice Handel) Tuesday - Concert Dress Rehearsal (all choir will meet during clubs to practice Handel) Wednesday - Concert Review/Winter Wishes delivery Thursday - Prep ...

THIS WEEK IN HS CHOIRS: Women's Choir, Concert Choir, Old School Edition & Madrigals will be reviewing songs for our December 13th Concert. Our focus this week will be memorization and fine tuning performance aspects. THIS WEEK IN MS CHOIRS: Guys and Gals will have dress rehearsal Monday & Tuesday during both 7th & 8th Hours. We will move to the AHS stage for rehearsals. Students will do a concert review on Wednesday, and will also have time in class to make up and work they miss from our Monday & Tuesday rehearsals. UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: Tuesday, December 6th - AMS Choir Concert & Poinsettia Delivery Tuesday, December 13th - AHS Choir Concert & Poinsettia Delivery Performance Recaps: Saturday, December 3 - SCKMEA HS All-District Honor Choir  Amazing Concert under the direction of Dr. Brad Vogel. All-State will be announced sometime after Dec. 10 Back Row: Levon, Shaun, Dawson, Alonso. Front Row: Emily, Liz, Ashley Sunday...

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break! I definitely enjoyed and needed the time off, but I missed my students and I am ready for the next month of busyness.  PERFORMANCES THIS WEEK: Saturday, December 3 - SCKMEA HS All-District Honor Choir  Congrats Shaun, Alonso, Levon, Dawson, Emily, Ashley & Liz Sunday, December 4 - Madrigals sing at Wichita Art Museum Friends of the Arts @ 2:30pm  DON'T FORGET POINSETTIA SALES END THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd THIS WEEK IN HS CHOIRS: Women's Choir, Concert Choir, Old School Edition & Madrigals will be reviewing songs for our December 13th Concert. Our focus this week will be making sure we know our parts and start to polish any bits and pieces that are still a little rough. THIS WEEK IN MS CHOIRS: Guys and Gals will be working on polishing last minute details for our December 6th concert. (That's a week from this Tuesday!)  UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: Tuesday, December 6th - AMS C...

Happy Thanksgiving! Monday Mrs. Hallford, Mrs. Delimont, and Old School Edition will be gone to the Butler Show Choir Festival in El Dorado. All Classes will be watching a musical of their choice. Tuesday All choirs will be reviewing their vocal parts on music we have already learned. Have a safe and happy holiday week! Mrs. H

I'm a little slow this week... This week in class: AHS & AMS Choirs - Reviewing music Weekly Goal: All parts LEARNED on all songs AMS Pioneer League Honor Choir songs learned This week on stage: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Saturday, November 12th 7:30pm Sunday, November 13th 2:00pm Many students, parents, and AHS Fine Arts supporters have contributed to make this show possible. Providing talent, work, meals, etc WE APPRECIATE YOU! Congrats to the following students who were selected to SCKMEA All-District Honor Choir! Liz Raehpour - Soprano 1 Ashley Dorf - Alto 1 Emily Robinson - Alto 2 Levon Mathis - Tenor 1 Dawson Wagner - Tenor 1 Shaun Blanton - Bass 2 Alonso Funk - Bass 2

This week in choir... AHS -  All choirs are working on learning their music for our December 13th concert. Our goal is to have parts well-learned by Friday, November 11th. AHS All-District/All-State Auditioners -  Optional work sessions are Tuesday and Wednesday from 3-3:45pm, also Thursday from 4:30-5pm. Audition Cuts are as follows: “Vision”- Music begins at measure 31. Students begin singing at measure 35 and stop at measure 66. “Fare Thee Well”- Music begins at measure 37. Students begin singing at measure 38 and stop at measure 55. “Shout Glory!”- Music begins at measure 5. Students begin singing at measure 7 and stop at measure 16. AMS -  All choirs are working to have music well-learned by this Friday, November 4th SCKMEA Honor Choir - this Saturday, November 5th ACHS PIONEER LEAGUE Honor Choir - next Saturday, November 12th Rose Hill Have a great week!