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^_^ I'm rather surprised no one has asked this yet!

This year my choir is doing an Easter-ish, kid friendly concert.

Pieces we're doing in general choir:
O Sifuni Mungu
I Bought Me a Cat
Sieze the Day (from Newsies)
Angus Dei and
Finale (Dona nobis pacem)
Orkney Lullaby
Possibly others.

Women's choir:
Alleluia (Randall Thompson)
Hotoru Koi (Maybe)

Chamber Choi:
Mr. Froggie Went a Courtin'
(Not sure what else because I'm not in chambers this semester)

Well, at the moment our choir is rehearsing for our annual Cabaret concert on the 18th. The theme this year is Hollywood on Broadway so we get to do some fun songs from musicals. Here are some of the songs we get to do:

Medley from My Fair Lady- Varsity (the choir I'm in)
Medley from Fiddler on the Roof- Women's
And show choir is doing a medly that I forget the name of, but it has Rhythm in it. sweatdrop
Hey Look Me Over from some old musical
So Long, Farewell from The Sound of Music whee
And whatever else we haven't been shown yet. (Our directors like to drop music on us last minute. sweatdrop )

Also, people can audition to do solos or small ensembles in between the big acts. I'm in an ensemble singing Steam Heat from the Pajama Game. And our first time getting together to practice the song is tomarrow. sweatdrop

Also, we have UIL coming up and I'm doing a solo for that. It's called Who'll Buy My Lavender? and it's so pretty! heart Even though its suppose to be a guy singing it to a bunch of girls. xd

Women's Chorus:
Battle of Jericho
Si Come Crescon
Because of You
Magnificat Suite
Svatba
The Vaults of Heaven
Adoramus
Carnavalito
Crux Fidelis
Credo
(Marconi likes keeping us busy)

Civic Chorus:
Handel's Messiah

I forget what we're doing for spring concert.. but so far it's ALL Latin (except for one Korean song)

Gloria!
Festivus Sanctus
Arirang
Old Man Laz'rus(not for concert though)
Kyrie
Si Vis Amari

And a few others I don't remember.

My choir? hmmm, we got:

Dreams to Dream (from "American Tail")
Obwisana
Didn't My Lord
Come All and Sing

And theres at least one more, but we dont know what it is yet.

In All State, we did,

All My Trials
Shenandoah
With a Voice of Singing
Sing and rejoice
Ching-A-Ring Chaw


And were doing the musical "The Pajama Game" (I'm Max, which is awesome for a freshman! I didnt think I'd get this part!)

Well, that depends which choir.

Doane Choir (the main choir) just got back from tour where we performed:
Haec es Dies (Gallus)
Sanctus (Palestrina)
Lacrymosa (Wilcocks)
Ave Maria from "The Mission" (Ennio Morricone)
Consecrate the Place And Day (Lloyd Pfautsch)
All That Hath Life And Breath (Rene Clausen)
Sleep (Eric Whitacre)
O Day Full of Grace (F. Melius Christiansen)
Patapan (Paul Christiansen)
The King of Love (P. Christiansen)
Ding Dong! Merrily On High (arr. C. Jennings)
O Magnum Mysterium (Francis Poulenc)
My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord (Moses Hogan)
Keep Your Lamps! (arr. Andre Thomas)
Praise His Holy Name! (Keith Hampton)
Precious Lord (choir closer)

We're adding more songs for our trip to Germany later this year. Those songs are:
Komm, Jesu, Komm (J.S. Bach)
There is a Balm in Gilead (Williiam L Dawson)
Jubilate Deo (Orlando di Lasso)
From Darkness to Light: A Requiem of Hope (Johnathan Wilcocks)

Jazz Unlimited (our show/jazz choir) is singing/dancing:
A Medley of Rent (including Rent, One Song Glory, Without You, La Vie Boheme, Will I?, Seasons of Love, and Finale B) (Jonathan Larson, arr. Mac Huff)
Just In Time (arr. Steve Zegree)
I've Got You Under my Skin (arr. Phil Mattson)
Scat Blues in "C" (Randy Crenshaw)
The Night We Called it a Day (arr. Steve Zegree)
River Jordan from "The Civil War" (Frank Wildhorn, arr. Teena Chinn)
For Good from "Wicked" (Stephen Schwartz, arr. Mac Huff)
Endless Night from "The Lion King" (arr. Mark Brymer)

Doublewide (our men's barbershop group) is performing arrangements of:
Beati Mortui (Mendelssohn)
Down on the Corner
Hello, Mary Lou
I Feel Good (arr. Keith Lancaster)
Go And Tell John (Lloyd Pfautsch)
Joshua (arr. Robert Sells)
In The Still of the Nite
Rise Up, O Men of God (Kenneth Jennings)
Jesus on the Radio
Love Letters
MLK (U2, arr. Bob Chilcott)
Title of the Song

Well, right now we aren't singing much because some of us are preparing for a contest. I actually feel kinda bad for the ones that aren't, cuz they've been getting neglected. Anyway, what we are doing is:

Sun and Moon from Miss Saigon
Roulez, jeunes gens, roulez
Psalite
Gloria (Mozart)
Songs from a Ceremony of Carols

After contest is done, we're going to get more songs for the concert in May/June, and then of course whatever song we do at graduation.

Our choir is Varsity Treble and we sang Regina Angelorum, My Mountain Home, and The King of Love for UIL. We got 2, 2, 1 on stage and straight 1's in sightreading. We got a plaque!