God, Thats Good!

Extra extra, read all about it! October 9th is the "Festival of Schools" performance at Reid Park Zoo from 9:00am - 1:00pm. The students that turned in their permission slips will be performing songs such as God That's Good, De Colores (with Ms. Chavez's class), On My Own and more.. Our stage time is about 15 minutes. Even if you're not performing you should still come and support the chorus. Any more questions about October 9th? Leave a comment..
In order to post pictures of our performances we need signed release forms! So, if you haven't turned one in be sure to do that! :) They are on the right side of this blog page..."Media Permission Forms" or get one from Mr. Levario

If we have anymore updates- or I forgot to post something, (Sorry, I'm a little slow sometimes..)
I'll be sure to add it- or Mr. Levario will...

-Brigette V.

Open House

Here we have a dedicated Choral member singing through a segment of "What I Did For Love..." It was related to the work done throughout the previous year to increase the general/vocal music classes from 1 to 3. It really was a labor of love.

As with many of our choral members, students love to show what they can do for their parents and how their skills at singing are developing. Our student here skillfully demonstrated her study of show tunes by singing a rendition of "Funny Girl." Barbra would be proud!

Open House Night

Two dedicated choral students just finished singing through a song of winter and Never Neverland from the musical Peter Pan. They entertained the hustling and bustling parents in the 7th/8th grade hallway.

VENI, VIDI, VICI

A small contingient of the chorus did an excellent job on Thursday evening! The pagemasters hope to post some pictures real soon!

Getting ready for open house...

The plan is to open the evening with the national anthem a capella in harmony.
It will still be a work in progress. We are also singing "Maybe this time" from Cabaret. Hope you enjoy this rendition of the song shown below...in case you would rather see Liza Minnelli's version, click on this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3rkLRJ0m0k

Brian, Mr Levario's son, created some simple riser choreography for the singers as well as discuss what type of motivation is needed to pull off a poignant song like this.

Not sure how the class will be presented in the classroom though...maybe students, parents and teacher will remain in the cafeteria for first period on Thursday evening.

AND THEY'RE OFF!!!!

Our first day of chorus gave us all a taste of sight singing and an experience with the well known spiritual folk song, "The Water is Wide." The group has great potential!

Day 2 is only mentioned because Mr. Levario was not in class and the song selection left for the students to work on was met by much trepidation. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie is not an easy song, and certainly not a song that can be ready in a couple of weeks. True, Mr. Levario should be there to help the students with the song, which he will throughout the weeks to come, but the song will not be performed until March 2011, by then, the group will have a show choir song that they can feel proud of....THANKS GLEE!! This blog needs some comments, so kids and parents please share your thoughts!

Slow to start

There seems to be some confusion about where to get information about the vocal "goings on" at Mansfeld. If there are questions, you should post to this blog. I read it all the time, also, if there is someone (parent) who would like to help run this blog, send me an email, thomas.levario@tusd1.org.

• Registration is on Thursday and Friday


• Chorus is first period as is Band, so there may be conflicts. Please contact me so you get the best of both worlds.


• If there are a few of you who want to help prepare the rooms for this school year, I will be at school during normal school hours starting next Tuesday (8/10/2010). Let me know what time you will be coming so I can get things ready for you. You can text me, email me or call me...(call each other for my number as I won't post it here)