'Leader Launch' Complements Student Character Lessons
'Leader Launch' Complements Student Character Lessons
'Leader Launch' Complements Student Character Lessons
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Fine Arts Department Planning Busy Year<br />
The Fine Arts Department has an event-filled year planned for<br />
the many choral, band and piano students at Lakeland Christian<br />
School. This year’s theme is “Make Music to the Lord,” and LCS<br />
families and supporters will be able to see the students live out this<br />
theme in many different contexts in the coming months.<br />
For the department, the school year started off with immediate<br />
preparations for the annual musical and the 4th Annual Musical<br />
Harvest. (Watch for more information on both of these events<br />
in the next edition of The Viking.) Next up will be the Christmas<br />
Musical, “Glory in the Highest,” which will be presented on<br />
December 14 at First Baptist Church at the Mall.<br />
Band<br />
The middle school and high school bands have been seen and<br />
heard this fall at Viking Stadium on Friday nights as they kept<br />
the crowd entertained at home football games. The pep band will<br />
also perform at basketball games during the winter sports season.<br />
Both bands will march in the annual Lakeland Christmas Parade.<br />
Also during the Christmas season, band students in grades 5-8<br />
will perform in the band Christmas concert on December 6. The<br />
secondary bands will be featured at the Christmas Musical on<br />
December 14. Prior to the annual musical, small groups will play<br />
music in the church lobby.<br />
New Gu i ta r Elective<br />
The Fine Arts Department added a new course elective this<br />
year. After attending a guitar workshop over the summer, Mrs.<br />
Kathy Johnson began teaching high school guitar. Thirteen<br />
students are currently enrolled in the class and will work on<br />
proficiency skills, music theory and performance. By the end of<br />
the year, the skills the students learn will prepare them to play<br />
in a variety of styles, equipping them to use their music to<br />
praise God wherever He leads them.<br />
An added elective this year is a guitar class that is being taught<br />
by Mrs. Kathy Johnson.<br />
Secondary Choirs<br />
This year there are 87 students participating in the<br />
Chamber Ensemble, Concert Choir, Junior High Choir and<br />
Sixth Grade Choir. Already this year, 30 students auditioned<br />
for the Polk All-County Choruses, and 15 singers will audition<br />
for the Florida All-State Choruses. The Chamber Ensemble and<br />
Concert Choir have submitted an audition video to Epcot to<br />
participate in the 2010 Christmas Candlelight Processional.<br />
Tri-M Music Honor Society<br />
The 2010-2011 LCS chapter of the Tri-M Music Honor<br />
Society is off to a running start and has close to 40 members<br />
this year. Mrs. Jill Jones is the faculty advisor for the group,<br />
and the officers for the society are Emily Tan (president),<br />
Angela Douglas (vice-president), Carly Tippel (secretary),<br />
Justin Middleton (treasurer), Andrew Tew (chaplain) and<br />
Courtney Payne (Florida Baptist Children’s Home Music<br />
Director). The officers will attend<br />
the Florida Music Educators’<br />
Association conference in Tampa<br />
in January. The members of Tri-M<br />
are working with the Florida<br />
Baptist Children’s Home to bring<br />
music and private lessons into the<br />
lives of children who otherwise<br />
might not have the opportunities.<br />
10<br />
Members of the high school Chamber<br />
Ensemble sing the National Anthem at home<br />
football games on Friday nights.