WELLESLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PERFORMING ARTS
2008-2009 Performing Arts Highlights
MUSIC
- WMS Morning Jazz Band - Gold Medal at the MAJE Festival
- WHS Orchestra - Gold Medal at MICCA - performed at "All Star" concert at Symphony Hall
- WHS Select Strings - Silver Medal at MICCA
- WHS Wind Ensemble - Silver Medal at MICCA
- WHS Keynote Singers - Silver Medal at MICCA
- WHS Concert Choir - Silver Medal at MICCA
- WHS Concert Band - Bronze Medal at MICCA
- WHS 1:00 Jazz Band - Gold Medal at Massachusetts Association of Jazz Educators (MAJE) State Finals - performed at MAJE Showcase at Boston Hatch Shell
- WHS 2:00 Jazz Band - Gold Medal at Massachusetts Association of Jazz Educators (MAJE) State Finals for 7th consecutive year! - performed at MAJE Showcase at Boston Hatch Shell
- WHS 1:00 Jazz Band - Honorable Mention Award in "Class B" at the University of New Hampshire "Clark Terry" Jazz Festival
- WHS 2:00 Jazz Band - One of top three Outstanding Performance Awards in "Class A" at the University of New Hampshire "Clark Terry" Jazz Festival
- WHS 1:00 Jazz Band - Gold Medal at the MAJE Festival - First ever Gold Medal for 1:00 Jazz Band!
- WHS 2:00 Jazz Band - Gold Medal at the MAJE Festival
- WHS 2:00 Jazz Band - one of fifteen national finalists in the country for the Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival in Lincoln Center, NYC
- WHS 2:00 Jazz Band - Gold Medal at the Norwood Jazz Classic
- WHS 1:00 Jazz Band - Honorable Mention at the 41st Annual Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival
- WHS 2:00 Jazz Band - First Place at the 41st Annual Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival in Class III
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Listen to the 2:00 Jazz Band perform Symphony in
Riffs, one of the winning mp3 tracks recorded for
Essentially Ellington. (Thanks to Steven Scott for providing the
music.)
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Listen to music from the WHS 2008 Winter Choir Concert featuring the Concert Choir, Song Sisters, Madrigal Singers, Brooks Brothers, Keynote Singers, and Rice Street Singers!
| Greensleeves (1:05) | Goodnight Sweetheart (2:26) |
| We Are ... (3:26) | Jamaican Marketplace (2:50) |
| Sing, Sing, Sing (2:32) | Tuxedo Junction (3:17) |
| Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (2:24) | Hope for Resolution (6:21) |
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 ~ 2:00 Jazz Band at the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition in Lincoln Center on Sunday, May 10th ~ Wellesley High School Rice Street Singers featured in the MAJE National Heritage Museum Jazz Showcase Concert onMay 16th ~ Concert of Hope on June 9th to raise money for the Ryan's Well Foundation |
DANCE
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 Footnotes 4/14/09 WHS Moving Company
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DRAMA
- WHS "Polish Joke" - semifinalists in the Massachusetts High School Drama Festival
- WMS "Chronicles of Jane" - Gold medal at the Massachusetts Drama Festival
Urinetown - 11/8/08
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"Honk, Jr." 4/2/09 |
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"Chronicles of Jane: Book 7" 5/7/09 |
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Last modified 6/23/09
MMEA Eastern Senior District audition pieces have been selected - download the list here (pdf). For more information, see the Senior District website.
Video & Web
Performing Arts Banquet slide show