HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR PLAYS CARNEGIE HALL.Byline: SIMONE SCHRAMM Community columnist The Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. Choir, The Vannaires, performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall Concert hall in New York, N.Y., U.S. It was endowed by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie at the insistence of the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862–1950). in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on April 5. Donations totaling $25,000 from Councilman Tony Cardenas Tony Cardenas served in the California State Assembly. In the Assembly, he had the powerful position of chair of the Budget Committee. He is now a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley. and fund-raisers helped the choir members make the trip. This was the first time the vocal jazz Jazz Singing can be defined by the instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of nonsensical meaningless non-morphemic syllables to imitate the group had performed out of state. For their performance, The Vannaires performed two jazz numbers: ``Walking'' and ``In My Life,'' arranged by choral director Phil Azelton. The choir was asked to perform at Carnegie Hall after Phil Mattson, founder of the School of Music Vocations in Iowa, saw the group perform at a 2002 music festival. ``When we got onstage, it was just a feeling that I never experienced before,'' said junior Anna Ziskin. ``It was an honor just thinking about the people who performed (there) in the past.'' The choir also performed a mass medley tribute to jazz great Hoagy Carmichael Noun 1. Hoagy Carmichael - United States songwriter (1899-1981) Carmichael, Hoagland Howard Carmichael with about 200 other students from all over the country. The medley included such songs as ``Ole Buttermilk Sky buttermilk sky n. Chiefly Inland Northern & Inland Southern U.S. See mackerel sky. [From the resemblance of the clouds to the texture of cultured milk.] ,'' ``Heart and Soul'' and ``Up a Lazy River.'' Eight-year-old Royal Siu of Oxnard won the 2004 California Strawberry Festival A Strawberry Festival is an event and celebration in many towns in North America. In most instances, areas around these towns are, or have been, deeply involved in the production and marketing of strawberries, and the festivals are usually held in late spring around the time of the Youth T-Shirt Design Contest. To Siu, the winning masterpiece, which depicts overlapping strawberries, is all about reds, greens, abstract shapes and movement. ``We were studying Picasso and learned about Cubism cubism, art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907. Cubist Theory Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras. and abstract form,'' said his teacher, Carolyn Solano. ``We (then) applied the learned technique to the strawberry concept.'' The only materials used were construction paper and markers. His third-grade class is part of the school system's Gifted and Talented Education Program. To celebrate his win, Sui and his classmates Classmates can refer to either:
The California Strawberry Festival will take place May 15-16 at Strawberry Meadows of College Park at 3250 S. Rose Ave. in Oxnard. Admission is $9 for adults; $5 for kids ages 5-12 and seniors 55 and over. Call (888) 288-9242 or visit www.strawberry-fest.org. Eleven elementary school students from three local schools were among six top teams awarded trips to the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., at the 13th annual LA's BEST Celebrate Science Fair. Twenty-five teams from LA's BEST sites throughout Los Angeles demonstrated their science projects to a panel of volunteer judges. The winning students and their projects are: --Jonathan Garcia, 9; Jonathan Ponce, 8; and Melaku Shiferaw, 8; of Arminta Elementary School in North Hollywood for their project, ``Surface Tension.'' --Dallas Alford, 10; Yarelly Becerra, 10; Matthew Coral, 11; and Gloria Giron, 11; of Kittridge Elementary School in Van Nuys for their project, ``Polluted Water & Plant Growth.'' --Alvaro Barragan, 10; Joseph Cruz, 10; Sam Ferrel, 10; and Eduardo Limon, 9; of Vinedale Elementary School in Sun Valley for their project, ``Thirsty Roots.'' Patrick Henry Middle School in Granada Hills has a new computer lab, thanks to the help of students at DeVry University in West Hills and funds donated by several businesses in the community. Kenneth Pride, technology teacher at the school, said he thinks there is no school in the Valley with anything like this. ``It's pretty dramatic,'' he said. ``Everyone who walks in says Oh, my goodness! It looks like 'The Matrix' when you walk in.'' Students at DeVry installed a new ceiling projector a 42-inch, wall- mounted plasma TV and new computers. Six local California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , students received recognition as outstanding national campus leaders in the 2004 edition of ``Who's Who Among Students in American University and Colleges.'' The students were chosen based on academic achievement, service to the community, leadership and extracurricular activities. The students are: Jennifer Ames of Van Nuys, Nicole Fetty of Chatsworth, Emiliano Galicia of Moorpark, Marcy Newman and Lili Ore-Moser of Northridge and Ebony Treneice Smith. |
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