Sweetwater singers to perform in All-State choir

Twelve members of the Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services Children’s Honor Choir have been accepted by audition to perform June 8 in Cheyenne, Wy in the 2019 Wyoming ACDA Children’s Honor Choir. 

The singers are Jacob Dyess, Makayla Johnson, Reanna Moorley, Aurora Brown, Jordyn Van Ausdle, Clair Luzmoor, Marlee Nyland, Hunter Swensen, Kaliya Burnham, Brylee Christensen, Breanna Quickenden and Nevaeh Bryant.

The Cheyenne All City Chorus will host the event which will feature the Internationally acclaimed educator, composer, conductor, Henry Leck. 

Leck is a professor emeritus in choral music at Butler University, where he served on the faculty for 27 years. He is the founder and conductor laureate of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir, which he served as artistic director for 30 years.

The touring choirs of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir have performed regularly for national ACDA, MENC, OAKE and AOSA Conferences. Additionally, the ICC tours internationally every year and has sung throughout the world. Leck recently arranged and conducted the national anthem for Kelly Clarkson and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir at the Super Bowl XLVI.

In addition to the families of these singers attending the event, Wendy Compton, director of the SBOCES Children’s Choir, “CANTABILE” will travel with the singers and represent the SBOCES Children’s Honor Choir at the conference and choir performance. 

With Sarah Wessel, she has prepared the singers in special rehearsals for this event.

Included in the repertoire for this All-State Honor Choir will be: “With a Banjo on My Knee,” arranged by Tim Sharp and Timothy M. Powell; “Amavolovolo,” a traditional Zulu Dowry Song, arranged by Rudolf De Beer; “Let There Be Love” (Janie’s Lullabye), by Michael O’Hara, and arranged by Susan Brumfield; “I Sing Because I’m Happy,” words by Civilla D. Martin, music by Charles H. Gabriel, arranged by Kenneth Paden, and adapted by Rollo Dilworth; “Tecum principium” (from Dixit Dominus) by Antonio Vivaldi, arranged by Henry Leck; and, “I Believe In the Sun” (Ich glaube an die Sonne), an anonymous text put to music by Thomas Juneau.  All selections are from the Henry Leck Choral Series “Creating Artistry.”