Welcome to the LSE Vocal Music website!
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Happy May Day! It's a busy time here in
Southeast Music Hall as we head into the end of the school
year. First up, we have a fresh batch of featured
students on our Meet
a Knight Page. Since this is the last month of
the school year it is our last chance to honor some of our
many outstanding seniors, so I've decided to make this
month's edition "Seniors Only".
Also our final concert, A Little Knight Music, is now only two
weeks away! This is always a fun night full of great
music, featuring all of our choirs at their best, so you'll
definitely want to get this event into your calendar:
join us Tuesday, May 15 at 7:00PM at O'Donnell Auditorium on
the Wesleyan campus (50th and Huntington). For more
information, find the event on our Facebook
page.
Another event you'll want to add to your calendar:
Countesses and Noblemen and Knight Sounds will have their
annual "Spring Swing" concert next Tuesday, May 8 at 6:00 PM
at Savannah Pines (40th and Pine Lake). Both swing
choirs will be performing music from the whole school
year. This event is also on our Facebook
page.
One more
important date: don't forget that our choral banquet
is on Thursday, May 17 at 6:00 PM! More information
about that event will be forthcoming.
Monday, April 2, 2012
It's a new month, and that
means we have another batch of exceptional students on our
Meet a Knight
page! Also, don't forget the performances of Titanic, the Musical next
week: April 12, 13, and 14 at 7:30 PM and April 15 at
2:00 PM, all in the Jennifer Dorsey Howley Performing Arts
Center.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Today is
the last day before Spring Break, and that means lists of next
year's choirs will be posted at the end of the school day.
In the meantime, you can click here
to read more about the decision making process and to prepare
yourself for handling whatever reaction you may have to your
placement. The lists will be posted here between 3:00 and
3:15 today. Update: Lists are now posted. Use this
link to access
the page.
Have a great break!
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Happy Leap Day! You
can now browse over to our Meet a Knight
page to read about our featured students for March!
In other news, don't forget that next week is our winter
concert for Singing Knights, Excalibur, and Knight
Sounds. Join us on Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 in the
Jennifer Dorsey Howley Auditorium to hear these fine young
Knights in action! For more news on upcoming vocal
music events, check out our Upcoming Events
calendar, which is reasonably up-to-date as of today.
On March 29, Court Choir and Queen's Court will present
their pre-District Contest concert at 7:00 PM. As a
treat that evening, we are inviting parents, LSE staff
members, and other interested family members and Alumni, to
join the choirs for a special song. There will be one
rehearsal for participants at 6:00 that evening. Look
here and on our Facebook
Group Page for more information. In the
meantime, you can view a PDF file of the music here.
This is sure to be lots of fun, so we hope you will embrace
your inner chorister and join us!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Our February students of the
month are now featured on our Meet a Knight
Page! It's another great group of singers, so I know
you'll enjoy finding out more about them!
Tuesday, January 3,
2012
I hope you are all enjoying your
holiday break, and that you are ready for lots more great
music making next semester. Don't forget that musical
auditions are coming up next week! See our Facebook page
for more
information
about auditions.
The reason I am updating during the break
is that we have entered a new month, which means we have a new
group of featured students on our Meet a Knight
page! You're definitely going to want to meet these
students: Victoria Shum, Alex Wooten, Angela Young, and
Ian Appleget.
Enjoy the rest of the break!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
December performing season is upon us, and that means students
will be busy little musicians for the next few weeks! All
performances and related information has been given to classes,
and are also accurate as of today on the calendar. In the meantime, we have a new
group of featured students for December! Go to the
Meet a Knight page to learn more about Willow
Lessman, Miranda Cannon, Bryan Soderquist, and Max Green.
I think you'll agree that this is a pretty awesome group of
people.
Monday, November 7, 2011
The
year
is
going great, and our first two concerts have gone
exceptionally well. We are starting to gear up for our
Holiday Season performances, especially for the Madrigal
Dinner and Holiday Concert, coming up on December 12 at
Sheridan Lutheran Church. More information about our
December performance schedule will be available on our Calendar
starting around the Thanksgiving break. In the meantime,
be sure to check out our Facebook
page for announcements, reminders, and other news.
While
you're
here,
you can also enjoy another special treat, a feature that we've
brought back to lsechoir.org due to popular demand. Meet a Knight is
back! On that page, we will highlight a different
student from each grade level every month, starting with
November's Students of the Month, Matt Eschliman, Ressa
Penland, Christian Jungck, and Chloe Glenn. We have some
great students with interesting things to say, and this is a
great way to get to know a bit more about them!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Welcome back to school, LSE
singers! The first full day of school is over and we are all
so excited about this year's choirs! I have finished
adding this year's performance dates to the Calendar. So far it is just the
dates from the performing arts calendar, so expect to see
lots more added throughout the year!
First up is our Vocal Music
Booster Dessert Night next Thursday, August 25 in LSE room
M111. All parents of vocal music students are invited
to attend to learn more about our Booster organization,
which is vital to the operation of our department. Please
bring a dessert to share with others. This event is
mainly for parents, but students are welcome to come and try
some desserts.
Monday, May 24, 2011
The MP3
files from Court Choir's recording sessions are uploaded and
ready for you to download and burn to your own CD's. Click here to view and
download.
Friday, March 18, 2011
The
lists
for
next
year's
groups
have been posted, and can be viewed here.
Please
take a moment to read the information sheet about list
posting. Teachers will be happy to conference with
students about their placement when we return from Spring
Break. Enjoy the time off, and see you third quarter!
Thursday, January
6, 2011
Now
that the holidays are over, we're back at school and getting
ready for auditions for next year's groups. Students
have been learning about the audition process during classes
this week, and auditions will begin next week and last at
least through finals. When we come back from semester
break, auditions for this year's musical will be held.
There will be more information about that later once the title
of the show and audition times are officially announced.
If you
haven't had a chance to check out our Facebook
Page, now would be a
good time to go, as there are lots of pictures from December's
performances recently posted. You do not need to have a
Facebook account to view our group page and its content.
Friday, November 19, 2010
December
performance
season
is
ramping
up,
with
lots
of opportunites for all of our choirs to get in front of
audiences. All of the performance dates I know of so far
are now on our Calendar,
and I will continue to update things as changes and additions
are made. Be sure to check often for updates, and you
are welcome to drop someone on the music staff an email if you
have any questions about the schedule. Most importantly,
be sure to remember this year's Madrigal Dinner (including a
melodrama!) and Holiday Concert at Sheridan Lutheran Church on
Monday, December 20. This is always a great evening of
entertainment and fellowship!
In the meantime, I encourage you to check
out our
group on Facebook. Since it's easier to put quick
updates on Facebook, you may be able to find more current
information there than on this website. You do not need
to be a member of Facebook to view our page and see what's
going on there.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Our
first
performances are fast approaching. On October 2, Bel
Canto will be traveling to Kansas City to perform at the KC
Renaissance Festival. On Tuesday, October 5, they will
join Queen's Court, Excalibur and Singing Knights for our
first school concert, at 7:00 in the LSE Commons. After
the concert, please join us for a choral boosters pie
fundraiser. Pie can be purchased for $2 a slice immediately
following the concert in the commons area. All proceeds go to
the choral boosters fund used to support Southeast choral
groups.
Choral booster membership forms will be
available--sign up and help support our students and teachers!
Your $25 will help purchase sheet music, pay concert expenses,
and fund the end of the year choral banquet..to name a few.
Outfits for Singing Knights, Excalibur, and
Queen's Court should
be coming home with students, along with outfit descriptions,
financial statements, and October 5th concert details.
These were all given to students today in class, so please be
on the lookout. Students should try on outfits as early
as possible so that adjustments or exchanges can be made
before the concert.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Beginning-of-year
paperwork
was sent home with students today. Each student was
given a packet of information, some of which must be signed
and returned by next Friday, September 3. All of these
forms and information sheets are also available for view and
download on our Forms
and Info page. In case you are overwhelmed by the
amount of paper you need to get through, here's an easy
checklist of what needs to be turned in next week:
(1)The bottom of the second page of the "Choral Music
Expectations and Grading" sheet needs to be signed by both
parent and student. (2)Pages 3 and 4 of "Parents'
Consent
Record For Participation in Activities" need to be filled out
completely. (3)The "Parent/Guardian Permission for Field
Trips" form must be filled out and signed. If you are
giving your student permission to drive a car to performances,
a copy of the proof of insurance card for that car must also
be included. Hope this helps!
It's been a great start to our school year,
and we are all excited about this year's groups and everything
we expect to accomplish this year!
Monday, August 23, 2010
I have made a few changes to this
website to make it more easily updated. You may notice
that the "email updates" feature is gone now. Instead, I
invite everyone to join our
group on Facebook, where I will post announcements that
have been made in classes and notify group members of website
updates, upcoming events, and other information that may not
otherwise get to everyone who needs it. I'm also hoping
that students will post about news and events that they would
like the rest of the department to know about (such as upcoming
studio recitals, etc.). Pictures can be posted to the
group, or can still be sent to me for posting on this site.
Within the next week, students will be coming
home with paperwork to be read, signed, and brought back to
school. This year, I will try to keep printable copies of
most of these and other forms on our Forms and Info
page, so that families can easily access them without having to
wait for them to find their way home. We will still give
each student one copy of each form, but, if they are lost, we
will ask families to print subsequent copies from the website if
possible. (Note: the forms available as of today are still from
last year and may be updated for this year, so please wait until
the new information is available before trying to print. I
will post here when forms are ready for download. Thanks!)
Don't forget the Choral Boosters dessert
Kickoff tomorrow at 7:00!
Thursday,
August 19, 2010
Welcome back to LSE for another great year of
singing! We've gotten through our first full day of school
and all students seem to be ready to make some first-rate
beautiful music!
Look to this site for more updates over the next
few weeks. Major performance and festival dates have been
added to our calendar,
and there will be more announcements as we get things
rolling. In the meantime, don't forget to come celebrate the
beginning of the year at the LSE Choral Booster Kickoff on
Tuesday, August 24 at 7:00 PM in Room M111.
Vocal Department News:
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Welcome to our
brand new vocal music website! We hope our students and
their families will find this site to be a helpful
resource. Our website team will be working over the next
few months to add features to the site that will help you keep
on top of our department events, and also to help you get to
know more about our staff and students. We are proud
of our department, and are excited to be able to share our news
in the most dynamic way possible!
Thank you for your support!
LSE Vocal Music Staff
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Questions
or
comments
about this site can be sent to the Site Administrator.
Questions or comments about the vocal music department can be
sent to Mrs. Noonan or Mrs. Moore.