CHOIR NEWS
On Saturday, October 4th, five hundred sixty-two seniors from across the State of Virginia auditioned for the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) Honors Choir; only one hundred thirty-two are chosen, and seven of those are our students! Congratulations to seniors Sara Rainey (Soprano II), Devon Mercer (Alto I), Caroline Anderson (Alto II), Lauren Bailey (Alto II), Sean Fischer (Tenor II), Erik Matson (Bass I), and Robert Higgins (Bass II). In addition, within their sections, Sara Rainey, Caroline Anderson, and Sean Fischer each placed first; Lauren Bailey placed third; and Devon Mercer and Erik Matson each placed fourth! This year's Honors Choir will perform at the VMEA Annual Convention, November 20-22, 2008, at The Homestead, in Hot Springs, Virginia.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9th:
2:20-3:00 PM - Voicemale Rehearsal.
CHORAL GUILD NEWS
SAT REVIEW COURSE/COLLEGE ESSAY SESSIONS RAFFLE - Through the generous sponsorship of the Georgetown Learning Centers, the Choral Guild is excited to offer a "RAFFLE for SUCCESS," where the prize is an SAT review course or a private College Essay workshop for one lucky student. Raffle tickets are $25 each and are only sold through our website. Click here to go to our "Raffle for Success" webpage or go to the homepage and click on the "GLC Raffle" link. Winner will be announced at our Fall Concert on October 21st.
CAR WASH - A huge thank you to the following parent volunteers who worked the car wash on Saturday, October 4th: Kim, David, and Josh Young, Mark and Peggy Raitor (your donuts and water were a big hit!), Carin Gendell, Jennifer Lee, Jennifer Follin, Paula Hefner, Richard Fultz, Jody and Erik Pilka, and Bill Guerin and Mitra Nejad-Guerin. And many thanks to Jaime Fernandez for his great pictures (see New on the Website, below). A special thank you from Stacy Fischer "to the Young Family, for arriving at 8:30 to help set up and for teaching me the ins-and-outs of running a car wash, and to Josh Young for being there with me from the beginning until the very end! The car wash would not have been as successful as it was without your help!" If you wish to learn how much money was raised, go to the homepage!
NEXT CHORAL GUILD MEETING - Our next Guild meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 14th, at 7:00 PM in the Choir Room. Topics to be covered include our Fall Concert needs. The full agenda will be posted to the website later this week.
FALL CONCERT AND MIDDLE-SCHOOL COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS - Parents, if you have any middle school students who need community service hours, we are looking for 4-6 middle school students to distribute concert programs and monitor the auditorium doors during our Fall Concert on October 21st. They would need to arrive in the lobby of the LHS Auditorium by 7 PM. If you are interested, please contact SooJung Kim at soojung.kim@fcps.edu. Many thanks in advance!
NEW ON THE WEBSITE
Our 2008-09 Photo Album is up and running! Go to our Photo Gallery and click on the link for this year's album.
Click here to go to our 2008-09 Video Gallery to view the Madrigals and Cooper Chorus performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at last week's Varsity football game. Many thanks to Bill Check for not only shooting the video, but for tackling the learning curve on how to get a video off a camera, onto a computer, edited, and turned into a form that can be uploaded to our website!
