WLA Spring Concert 2014 - Live Stream

Looking for the live stream of tonight's WLA Spring Concert?  Head over to WLA TV and watch the stream starting at 7 PM CDT (GMT-5).  But first, click here for the program!

WLA's State Solo Ensemble 2014 - RESULTS

UPDATED Mon., Apr 28, 2014 – What an outstanding weekend! WLA's music students brought home 17 firsts (with 3 perfect scores), 5 seconds, and 2 Exemplary Soloist Awards! Congratulations to Senors Naomi Haag (An die Musik, Schubert) and Andi Franklin (O Thou that Tellest Good Tidings to Zion, Handel) for being awarded Exemplary Soloist Awards!

Click here for a PDF of WLA's schedule for Saturday, April 26, 2014 at UW-Oshkosh

Click here to go to WSMA's page for more information (maps, general info, other schedules, etc.) about the UW-Oshkosh festival

Here are the results from this weekend.  Congratulations to all of these students for their hard work and using their musical gifts to God's glory!  I'm proud of all of you!

WLA Traveling Choir 2014-2015 Auditions

Students of Winnebago Lutheran Academy who desire to sing with WLA Traveling Choir in the 2014-2015 school year must audition between April 22–May 2, 2014.  To be eligible for WLA's Traveling Choir, students must have sung in a WLA choir for one year or have the consent of Mr. Witte.

1. Click to sign up for a 15-minute audition time slot on Google Calendar.

• Choose any available time slot which works for your schedule.
• Type your name into the "What" field, replacing what I have typed there.

• If you need to change or delete your appointment time, go to your own Google calendar (click on the Rubic's cube button on the top right corner of the www.google.com page and choose "Calendar"). Go to the day and date that you reserved and click on your appointment on your calendar. Look for "Going?" on the bottom of the popup and click on "Delete".  Then go back to the appointment link in #1 above and choose a different time slot.

2. Click to download the 2014-2015 audition requirements.

3. Click to download America the Beautiful: Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Alto 1, Alto 2, Tenor 1, Tenor 2, Bass 1, Bass 2

4. Click to download "God So Loved the World" from The Crucifixion by John Stainer.

5. Fill out the following form before your audition:

WLA Hymnfest "On Christ, The Solid Rock, I Stand"

Tune in at 2 PM Central for the WLA Hymn Festival 2014 live stream from St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Fond du Lac, WI. Click here for the program. This stream is also hosted at wlavikings.org.


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2014 District Solo Ensemble Results

What a great couple of weekends the WLA music students have had at the Flyway District Solo Ensemble Festivals hosted by North Fond du Lac High School! God's musical gifts are being certainly used and God's blessings certainly have been showered on these students. Congratulations to all of them for their hard work, preparation, and performances!

 Students who have qualified for the State Solo Ensemble Festival are marked with a 1* (aka "starred first). They will perform in a State Finalists' Recital at WLA on Wednesday, April 23 at 6 PM in the WLA Choir Room and then at UW-Oshkosh for the State Solo Ensemble Festival on Saturday, April 26, 2014.
 

March 1 2014 Solo Ensemble Checklist (NFDL HS)

(Updated 2/25/14) Click here for WLA's Final Schedule (and Site Map) for the March 1 Flyway District Solo Ensemble Festival

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Hosted at North Fond du Lac High School (website)

325 McKinley St, North Fond du Lac, WI (920) 929-3740

1. Have you paid Mr. Witte for your entry? (Solos: Class A $10, B & C $8; Ensembles $14 ÷ # people in your ensemble)
2. Do you have a clean score for the judge? (WLA provides, see Mr. Witte)
3. Have you numbered the measures in the judge’s score (required)?  In your own?
4. Have you and your accompanist been practicing together? 
5. Does your accompanist know when and where you perform?
6. Have you written your introduction?  “Good morning.  My name is (say your name)  and I’m from Winnebago Lutheran Academy in Fond du Lac.  This is my accompanist (say accompanist’s name) and I will be singing a (name of category, e.g. “Soprano Solo” or “Barbershop Quartet”) entitled (say name of piece) by (say composer’s name).  Then briefly describe something interesting about your piece (an aspect of style, form, technique, harmony, rhythm, or melody.)  Musical Theater introductions should also set the scene for the performance (i.e. describe who you are portraying and what the piece you are singing has to do with the musical from which it is taken).
7. Dress up!  You can impress the judge with how you are dressed even before you sing.
8. Be at Horace Mann HS at least 45 minutes before you perform.  Walk the building to find out where you perform (look at the site number on the schedule and find it on the map) and where the warm up rooms are.  Then go warm up your voice! Sing!
9. Be at your performance room 15 minutes before you are scheduled to perform.  Announce yourself to the door monitor so they know who you are and that you are ready to perform.
10. If you have a conflict with your performance time (e.g. your accompanist is late because they are accompanying someone else) then tell the door monitor and give them a time estimate when you can perform so that they can do some schedule juggling.
11. It’s your choice whether to sit in your room and watch performances before you or wait in the hall.  Take deep breaths.  Relax!  The judge wants to hear your best and wants to help you get even better.  Remember to thank God for the blessing of singing He’s given to you and ask His blessing on your performance.  Prayer works! (pray early, pray often!)
12. When it’s your turn to perform, give you judge’s copy to the room monitor so they can give it to the judge.  Go to the front of the room and stand in a formal manner, but RELAX!  Take deep breaths and think about your piece and how it will sound.  The judge will tell you when you may begin.
13. If you perform with your own copy of the music, don’t bury your eyes in the score.  Put it on a music stand so you can look up at your audience and the judge.  Smile (if you piece calls for it) or show other emotions that show you understand what you are singing.  If you can perform from memory, all the better!
14. After your performance the judge will call you back to their table and tell you things that you did well and things that you can improve upon.  Be polite and agreeable.  If the judge asks you to sing a part over, do it as they ask.  Sometime they are looking more for potential and workability than for what they just heard.
15. When they are done, stick around to get your judge’s copy of your piece and go out into the hall to relax and reflect on how you performed and what the judge said.  Remember, you’re using someone else’s gifts for the weekend (God’s).  Make Him proud by using them well.  Thank Him for the opportunities He gave you to use His gifts.  Take the judge’s copy back to WLA on Monday, March 2.
16. Results are usually posted by an hour after your performance.  There will be a central location with a lot of sheets taped to a wall with many people crowded around either crying, screaming, or being quiet.  If you choose not to wait for your results, you may leave.  I’ll stay around until the end and get everyone’s critiques and results and bring them back to WLA to be handed out.
17. If your performed a Class A solo or ensemble and got a *1, then you have been advanced to the State Solo/Ensemble Festival, Saturday, April 26, 2014 at UW-Oshkosh.  Congratulations!  Given the length of time in between, you have to option of keeping your current piece going or starting a brand new class A piece for State.  See Mr. Witte for details.  If you make it to State, you will also perform in the State Finalist’s Recital at WLA on Wednesday, April 23, 2014.
18. Remember to give Mr. Witte the judge’s copy (because it’s WLA’s music).  Monday in class would be a good time to do this.

GOD’S BLESSINGS ON YOUR PERFORMANCE!

Four Chorales from the Chorale Motet "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 227)