The Sound Of Music
by Andrea Karch
December 05, 2007
Last Friday morning at 4:30, two sleepy band members and four still tired choir members packed their pillows and made their way to Dodge City for the Honor Choir and Band with Mrs. Hale at the helm. There, Savannah and Tanner N., Emma C., Breanna and Deanna H. and Nathan M. practiced with other students from 15 different schools who were from western Kansas and eastern Colorado. They spent the weekend practicing 5 difficult band pieces as well as 5 brand new choir pieces that were performed on Saturday afternoon at 2 pm for the public. The audience got to experience about an hour of beautiful new pieces of music and a guest conductor from Oklahoma City for two of these. One of the two songs our students enjoyed performing was actually written by his father which gave the event the special spark of joy.
After this successful musical weekend, the students returned to their homes on Sat. evening. Mrs. Hale would especially like to thank Weskan School for taking care of hotel expenses which allowed our students the privilege of participating in a very eventful musical weekend and performance.
