Eighth Grade will be doing several classes on songwriting as well
as working on their Group Projects "Music Through the Decades".
Seventh Grade will be exploring Careers in Music (Performance and
Non-Performance).
Sixth Grade will continue with their study of a Major Choral Work,
Handel's Messiah.
Fifth Grade will be doing a unit on Music Therapy and how music and
other art forms can be utilized to improve people's lives.
Fourth Grade will be staging scenes from their Opera, Where the Wild
Things Are.
Third Grade will begin staging scenes from their Musical, Disney's
Alice In Wonderland.
Second Grade will be learning about singing rounds and canons, both
in English and in other languages.
First Grade is going to be creating arrangement in rhythmic notation
and performing in small groups what they have written.
Kindergarten will be learning about songwriting while learning an
original choral work for young children entitled Mother Goose has
lost Her Mind.
Auditions for our Spring Musical, Disney's Beauty and the Beast are
coming up next month and we're all very excited about this opportunity
to perform this Family Classic which has only recently become available
to schools and community theaters.
On a personal note, I will be performing in a play at the Beverly
Arts Center January 30 and 31 an February 6 and 7th. The play is Greater
Tuna and I will be appearing as eleven characters along with another
instructor from the BAC. It's our first attempt at having a professional
company at the Arts Center and I would be thrilled to have a big crowd
of St. Benedict parents in the audience (it's not a children's play).