tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224426851683190542011-04-21T13:33:39.095-07:00A weekly blog with topics pertinent to the choral members. Students post replies to a weekly prompt from Mrs. Flateau. Prompts will be in varied formats and are expected to be replied to within one week of the original posting. Participation in the blog will result in a participation grade for the week of 10 - barring any issues in class that detract from the grade. Non-participation will result in a zero - Have fun!Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-31252337671267596072009-05-06T18:07:00.000-07:002009-05-06T18:08:27.568-07:00<object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xPZFsl1-Drc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xPZFsl1-Drc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br />:)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-3125233767126759607?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-10093506140545759982008-12-25T11:40:00.001-08:002008-12-25T11:43:17.406-08:00That is the question for you fine, feathered friends, why music? <br /><br />Why is music education an integral part of your education in school? What moments from "Mr. Hollands Opus" spoke to you about music education in America? Please expand a bit further on this and speak from the heart - I really would love to hear exactly why you choose to spend 45 minutes (and for some of you - another 45 minutes!) making music during your school day.<br /><br />I'm very excited to read your responses :D<br /><br /><br />Have a great break!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-1009350614054575998?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-46810745796030077462008-12-19T05:50:00.001-08:002008-12-19T05:51:46.192-08:00I am SO proud of each and every one of you. The concert last night was wonderful and you should all feel very happy about the work you've done and how it turned out. You knocked my socks off!<br /><br />We'll have a fun day today full of good food and singing for little ones! Thank you for being such hard working and fun people to spend time with!<br /><br /><3,<br />Mrs. Flateau<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-4681074579603007746?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-58028582822939684362008-12-01T07:43:00.001-08:002008-12-01T07:46:47.321-08:00I hope everyone had a great break - I know I did!<br /><br />In honor of our concert being 10 days away - I'd like to open up the following question to my fellow blog-sters (AKA - you):<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What do you personally (as in, not your section, not the whole chorus) feel you need to work on to make our concert a complete success? You can pick a piece, but please be specific in section and measure number. Also, specify what needs work in that area. Please remember this is about YOU not your section or any other section.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Since I posted the blog one day late (uh oh!) you get an additional day to finish it. So you have until Monday, December 8th to complete this blog at 11pm. Hooray!<br /><br />Let's work hard and make our concert FAAAAABULOUS!<br /><br />-Mrs. Flateau<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-5802858282293968436?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-43174742142104601302008-11-26T21:02:00.000-08:002008-11-26T21:09:57.673-08:00Our concert is just about two weeks away! Hard to believe, you've all come such a long way and have worked really hard. You should be proud of the work we've done!<br /><br />Just to clarify - our concert order is as follows:<br /><br />La dee da dee da entrance piece<br />Now I walk in beauty<br />Song of Galilee<br />Blow the Candles Out<br />Dide Ta Deo<br />Praise His Holy Name<br />Goin to Bethlehem<br />Too lah play zee oh recessional piece<br /><br />It should be really great!<br /><br />***<br /><br />Thank you to all our soloist auditionees in the past few days - it was really difficult to choose only three people from all of those who auditioned. I tried to consider ability first and foremost, but when it came down to the wire if two students were of the same ability and in the finalist position for the solos, I went with the student with more seniority, but only if it came down to two who were of the same ability. I hope this makes sense to you :) Please don't be discouraged if you were not selected, you all sounded lovely and I wish I had enough solos for each and every one of you.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">So, without further ado, congratulations to the following students!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Blow the Candles Out solists: </span>Tim Marro and Lauren Simano</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Goin to Bethlehem descant: </span>Cat Clogston</span><br /></div><br />Fabulous work! Have a great Thanksgiving and be ready to polish up those pieces to perfection when we return to school on Dec. 1st!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-4317474214210460130?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-81509718026134224462008-11-23T14:42:00.000-08:002008-11-23T14:46:32.279-08:00AH and one more thing - don't forget to begin gathering your head to toe black for the concert. Shoes I'm not too too concerned with them being straight black - but I don't want to see any sneakers or anything like that - please.<br /><br />Speaking of concert wear - I made a new poll about what else, SHOES. Have fun!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;" ><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~Rainer Maria Rilke</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-8150971802613422446?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-11292437603266341402008-11-23T14:32:00.000-08:002008-11-23T14:35:59.368-08:00I chose<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the fabulous </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Lauren Simano</span> for a question for this week - I also received a few other questions that were really interesting and will use them in the future!<br /><br />Soo...as asked by Ms. Simano...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">What have you learned from past music teachers? (IE - Ms. Kuhn, Ms. Blair, Mr. Stevenson, etc.)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Have fun! A short week coming up - HOORAY. I seriously need a vacation, you?<br /><br />Mrs. Flateau :)<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-1129243760326634140?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-49768731050416325702008-11-16T20:32:00.000-08:002008-11-16T20:36:05.327-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">Question for the week - please respond by 11/23 - Sunday!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you could only listen to one <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">GENRE </span>of music for the rest of your life, what would it be and why? Take that one step further, and identify the one <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SONG</span> you'd listen to for the rest of your life if you had to choose, and tell why. ONLY CHOOSE ONE! Hard choice huh?<br />(<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Genre</span> is a classification - like Rock, Alternative, Country, Rap, etc.)<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Have a nice week! Keep up the good work!</span><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-4976873105041632570?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-85220994671871749672008-11-16T20:26:00.001-08:002008-11-16T20:31:40.791-08:00The following students have posted to the required blog entry...<br /><br />Kyle<br />Maria<br />Quiglet<br />Dustin<br />Kim<br />Lauren<br />Ashley<br />James<br />Becca<br />Olivia<br />Cat<br />Heather<br />Lexi<br />Mrs. Flateau :)<br /><br />Thank you for participating! Your responses were nicely composed and thoughtful - thanks!<br /><br />I've decided to add in a participation grade for each of these blog postings. I didn't think it was fair to entirely discount your in class participation for not being part of the blog - so I've separated them. You get 10 participation grades (1 for each week) each quarter - and I will also be giving a grade for this blog posting that is of similar weight. I've yet to set it up in PowerSchool but will get that done this week. So if you did not post to this blog - you will get a zero for the additional blog grade - but your participation will not be affected. If you posted to the blog - you will get a perfect score -hooray! Nice work - see you all tomorrow!<br /><br />Mrs. Flateau<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;" >He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-8522099467187174967?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-26311261881226816692008-11-07T19:23:00.000-08:002008-11-07T19:29:56.860-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">Hokay - so this is the first required blog posting here on our spiffy chorus blog. I've had some difficulty getting our audio files up - so I'll be asking you a question today and you'll need to leave a response in the comment area of the blog. You don't have to get suuuuper in depth - but at least a few sentences or a coherent thought would be nice :P<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Question for the week - please respond by 11/16 - Sunday!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">As a singer in chorus or while singing for fun - what challenges you most? On the other hand - what do you feel that you do very well in relation to singing?</span><br /><br />Be honest and have fun!<br /><br />As a reward - an updated photo with all chorus members in the shot - except for me, Mrs. Flateau. *Cries*<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p9dWd19NJUA/SRUHZ4MhxqI/AAAAAAAAAAw/8Yun4fZyNLQ/s1600-h/feb13008+048.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 164px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p9dWd19NJUA/SRUHZ4MhxqI/AAAAAAAAAAw/8Yun4fZyNLQ/s320/feb13008+048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266123480442717858" border="0" /></a><br />Have a fantabulous weekend - my little singing fools.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-2631126188122681669?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-34552430478579859592008-11-04T17:25:00.000-08:002008-11-04T17:28:59.774-08:00And then I'm off to tend to Lily J all evening...<br /><br />If you happen to see a reply from "Mina" - that is also me, Mrs. Flateau. It officially means I was too lazy to log out of my personal gmail account. And no, that does not mean you can call me Mina - unless you call me Mrs. Mina - which makes me sound like a cartoon character - which I am not.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Until another day...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-3455243047857985959?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-65889126073805844152008-11-04T16:57:00.001-08:002008-11-04T17:05:16.596-08:00High fives all around to those of you who are following the blog and/or left comments already. If you have not done this yet, you obviously need to follow the herd and get to it!<br /><br />Like I mentioned in class, topics for discussion will be posted beginning next week - I hope to have the topic up by Sunday evening - you'll have until the following Sunday evening to reply to the post. I'll be checking on Monday morning around 8am and adjusting participation scores accordingly - if you have not participated in the post you will receive a <span style="font-weight: bold;">0 </span>for the week - not a good thing! So take a moment (seriously, 2 minutes will suffice) and offer your thoughts to the almighty chorus gods - or Mrs. Flateau - whichever you find more appropriate.<br /><br />***<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p9dWd19NJUA/SRDwv5sVIJI/AAAAAAAAAAY/WjW5JllYQL8/s1600-h/feb13008+014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p9dWd19NJUA/SRDwv5sVIJI/AAAAAAAAAAY/WjW5JllYQL8/s320/feb13008+014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264972670127382674" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Hokay - thanks for reading - GOOD WORK today on <span style="font-style: italic;">Goin' to Bethlehem</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Song of Galilee</span> - you were positively spooky in<span style="font-style: italic;"> Song of Galilee</span> - that's a good thing, by the way.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p9dWd19NJUA/SRDxF3TFH9I/AAAAAAAAAAg/PCZeBckNMik/s1600-h/feb13008+015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p9dWd19NJUA/SRDxF3TFH9I/AAAAAAAAAAg/PCZeBckNMik/s320/feb13008+015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264973047441727442" border="0" /></a><br /><br />You're all so photogenic! (Except for Kyle. - <span style="font-weight: bold;">What? WHO SAID THAT</span>?!) Just kidding Kyle.<br /><br /><3 Mrs. Flateau<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-6588912607380584415?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-84643389522885008672008-10-31T18:08:00.001-07:002008-10-31T18:16:48.920-07:00Of Blogger's ability to handle video files...<br /><br />Kyle and James' sick gymnastic skills.<br /><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-7b52dd7d91256eea" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v24.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D7b52dd7d91256eea%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331148401%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D50234947D95A6DEF9B03C53A6BE7C09C92B6AA3E.3819D7DBCCACD76615F904DAEC8E536361270509%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D7b52dd7d91256eea%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DdLKFR-pKYIrXP4cFCNZPtoUUIB8&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v24.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D7b52dd7d91256eea%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331148401%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D50234947D95A6DEF9B03C53A6BE7C09C92B6AA3E.3819D7DBCCACD76615F904DAEC8E536361270509%26key%3Dck1&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D7b52dd7d91256eea%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DdLKFR-pKYIrXP4cFCNZPtoUUIB8&autoplay=0&ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /></object><br /><br />Happy Halloween chorus fiends - and hooray for the end of Quarter one! 1/4 of the way through - and halfway to our first concert.<br /><br />Just a reminder that our Winter Concert is on <span style="font-weight: bold;">December 11th at 6:30pm</span>! So far these are our potential pieces for the performance:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blow the Candles Out</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now I Walk in Beauty</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Toolah Play-zee-oh</span> (recessional)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dide Ta Deo</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Goin to Bethlehem</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Praise His Holy Name</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Song of Galilee</span><br /><br />Wow! That is a lot of music you've churned out in the past 10 weeks - you should be proud of the work you've done - I am :)<br /><br />Have a fabulous weekend - I will see you on Monday for the start of Quarter Two (of DOOM - hah - just kidding - maybe.)<br /><br /><3 Mrs. Flateau<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-8464338952288500867?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722442685168319054.post-54678053648338858812008-10-28T09:18:00.000-07:002008-10-28T09:20:48.698-07:00Welcome to the WHS Chorus Blog! Hooray!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1722442685168319054-5467805364833885881?l=whschorus.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mrs. Flateauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597994266754710268noreply@blogger.com11