WCHS Choir, Orchestra Going To Disney For Special Events
March 29, 2022 at 1:19 a.m.
WCHS Choir, Orchestra Going To Disney For Special Events
By Jackie Gorski-
Thirty choir members will perform at Disney Springs on April 5 at 1:30 p.m., said Cassandra Petrie, choir director. The performance will be 25 minutes long.
During the performance, the choir members will sing Disney music, including “Hakuna Matata,” an “Aladdin” medley, “Under the Sea,” “Trashin' the Camp” from Tarzan, “It’s A Small World” and “When You Wish Upon A Star.”
Going on the trip was voluntary, so the choir members chose to go, she said. The students have to pay to be on the trip. Petrie said she gave some money out of her extracurricular account to every student and there have been different fundraisers so the students could afford the trip. Theater teacher Melany Morris donated money to every student in Select Chorale who was in the musical performed at the high school to go on the trip, as well.
This is the second time the choir has been to Disney on spring break, the first time being several years ago. Petrie said they tried to do it again, but the COVID-19 pandemic happened.
Also, at 2 p.m. April 4, about 20 eighth-grade and high school orchestra members will go to a recording studio workshop, said Angela Dieleman, orchestra teacher. A staff member from Disney will work and conduct the students and run them through different techniques and exercises of doing things in a recording studio mindset. They will learn what kind of skills professionals need to live the life of recording and learning music in a fast pace.
Dieleman said the life of a professional musician is kind of opposite of a student, where students in middle or high school practice the music a lot and have one final performance. For a professional, they get one or two rehearsals and then they have to give that final performance and then move on.
The orchestra students won’t know what music they will be getting during the workshop and will have to sight read and perform it during the two- or three-hour workshop, Dieleman said. The students will actually get to record what they learned during that workshop and Dieleman said she was told the orchestra students will be able to play the music along with a movie clip from a Disney clip, but she doesn’t know which clip it is yet.
Besides the two special events, the students will go the different parks and have a special breakfast, as both the orchestra and choir members will spend April 1 to 7 on the trip, Petrie said.
The trip was planned through Music Travel Consultants in Indianapolis.
It’s exciting the trip can happen now because it’s the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Resorts, so there will be several different events, Petrie said.
Petrie said she hopes the students get to make “really wonderful memories” of the trip and their time in choir.
Dieleman said she hopes the students get a feel for what kinds of things they can do with music besides what they learn in music, as there’s a whole different side of music as an adult. She also hopes it helps the students to make better connections with each other.
Thirty choir members will perform at Disney Springs on April 5 at 1:30 p.m., said Cassandra Petrie, choir director. The performance will be 25 minutes long.
During the performance, the choir members will sing Disney music, including “Hakuna Matata,” an “Aladdin” medley, “Under the Sea,” “Trashin' the Camp” from Tarzan, “It’s A Small World” and “When You Wish Upon A Star.”
Going on the trip was voluntary, so the choir members chose to go, she said. The students have to pay to be on the trip. Petrie said she gave some money out of her extracurricular account to every student and there have been different fundraisers so the students could afford the trip. Theater teacher Melany Morris donated money to every student in Select Chorale who was in the musical performed at the high school to go on the trip, as well.
This is the second time the choir has been to Disney on spring break, the first time being several years ago. Petrie said they tried to do it again, but the COVID-19 pandemic happened.
Also, at 2 p.m. April 4, about 20 eighth-grade and high school orchestra members will go to a recording studio workshop, said Angela Dieleman, orchestra teacher. A staff member from Disney will work and conduct the students and run them through different techniques and exercises of doing things in a recording studio mindset. They will learn what kind of skills professionals need to live the life of recording and learning music in a fast pace.
Dieleman said the life of a professional musician is kind of opposite of a student, where students in middle or high school practice the music a lot and have one final performance. For a professional, they get one or two rehearsals and then they have to give that final performance and then move on.
The orchestra students won’t know what music they will be getting during the workshop and will have to sight read and perform it during the two- or three-hour workshop, Dieleman said. The students will actually get to record what they learned during that workshop and Dieleman said she was told the orchestra students will be able to play the music along with a movie clip from a Disney clip, but she doesn’t know which clip it is yet.
Besides the two special events, the students will go the different parks and have a special breakfast, as both the orchestra and choir members will spend April 1 to 7 on the trip, Petrie said.
The trip was planned through Music Travel Consultants in Indianapolis.
It’s exciting the trip can happen now because it’s the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Resorts, so there will be several different events, Petrie said.
Petrie said she hopes the students get to make “really wonderful memories” of the trip and their time in choir.
Dieleman said she hopes the students get a feel for what kinds of things they can do with music besides what they learn in music, as there’s a whole different side of music as an adult. She also hopes it helps the students to make better connections with each other.
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