Valentine's Day is just around the corner. The choir is working on Midwinter music for our February 27th concert. We are singing Chesnekov, Randall Thompson, Calwell & Ivory, and Klouse's "The Prayer of the Children". News worthy items about this year? The choir is sending 4 students to the National ACDA Conference in Chicago! Bravo to Christian Boechler, Rachel Goettle, Nick Van Sickle, and Nicholas Boechler. We also just had our ND ACDA Conference in Dickinson. I had the pleasure of taking 11 students. 6 guys in the Men's HS/Collegiate Honor Choir; Jace Carroll, Christian Boechler, Michael Berger, Dominick Goettle, Alex Willey, and Ben Porter. 5 students in the JH/MS Honor Choirs; Rachel Goettle, Alanna Carlson, Jenna Smith, Nick Van Sickle and Nicholas Boechler (though I can't claim Nicholas any more - he is Miss Jessi Maher's student). She is a former student of mine. How cool is that? They were fun! The drive home was not! Snow fog=scary!
We participated in the University of Mary Jazz Festival. I have been a part of that festival since 1983. Yikes. Vijay Singh and Michelle Weir were awesome. I had the youngest high school choir with the newest students and they upheld the tradition of excellence for St. Mary's. We debuted our first ever guys group. Fun! The NDMEA All State lists came out. We have 9 students in the choirs and 1 alternate (we're hoping to get him in too!) Jazz Choir= Brittany Dunnigan, Kendra Weigel, Christian Boechler; Mixed Choir=Rachel Goettle, Sarah Porter, Dominick Goettle; Women's Choir=Alexandra Streifel, Juliana Keller, Maureen Bry. Way to go Saints!
Here's hoping you have a beautiful time with someone you love in the next week, celebrating Valentine's Day.
