Fantastic Friendship Festival!

We had yet another fantastic Friendship Festival, featuring choruses from Hope Hill, Morningside, Mary Lin, SPARK, and VHE, plus Centennial Place Academy, Howard MS, and Midtown High School.

We are incredibly lucky that Midtown Cluster teachers understand the importance and the necessity of singing, and singing well! I'm so grateful that we have Mr. Jay Sessoms and Mr. Kevin Hill who keep our singers singing and growing all the way through middle school and high school!

We Are Going to Be Friends by The White Stripes

conducted by Brianne Turgeon (SPARK)

Tonight You Belong to Me

conducted by Melanie Relyea (MES)

Rhythm of the Rain

conducted by Maggie Sherwood (VHE)

Thank You for Being a Friend by Andrew Gold

conducted by Kevin Hill (Midtown HS)

STEAM Night Fun!

 AC had another performance on Thursday, Sept 17 for our SPARK Wonder STEAM Night. We connected songs to 4th grade Weather, math, and space standards thematically.

The setlist:

Mr. Sun → You Are My Sunshine Walking Home + I Don’t Care if the Rain Comes Down + Rocky Mountain Rhythm of the Rain Counting Stars Stand R.E.M. Oye

Thank you Ji-Young Lee for the videos! 

Performing for VaHi!

 Gig #1 is in the Books!

Our Advanced Chorus had their very first performance on September 1, performing for the Virginia Highland Civic Association's annual meeting AND we got to see our friends from our sister school Virginia Highland Elementary! Go Owls! Go Dragons!

Below is a playlist of our selections (not in performance order):

Oye by Jim Papoulis

Counting Stars by One Republic (sing along)

SPARK Song

VHE sang 

The VHE School Song

Sunflowers

VHE had a great turnout for their huge Chorus!

This was the first Chorus performance for many of our singers!