Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] There we go. [Music] [Music] you grad. [Applause] [Music] without Let's all enjoy some unrupted [Music] singing right now. your kids and show you how just do it now. Don't be that guy. And now you're running out of time. This is the end of [Music] the wait till you get home. Oh, while your ears turn off your Hello and welcome to our sixth 6 pm concert featuring seventh grade choir. choir and trouble choir. Since we saw each other in January for our first performance, I think you'll hear a lot of progress in the last few months. Since January, we've done a lot of things, including a winter quo Olympics where we had a high high note challenge and a low note challenge and a masked singer challenge, a note challenge. We did a choir spelling bead. We did a fingerlight rehearsal and a lot a lot of singing. We've got a variety of songs for you this evening featured in so so much talent. If you didn't notice, we have some QR codes. If you want to scan some digital programs, those are available and printed programs are also in the back. The song you just heard is the turn off your phone song. It's a fun reminder that helps minimize distractions during performances. And as we settle in for a great evening of music, we ask you to silence your cell phones. Be mindful for others around you as well. Up next, you're going to hear four more songs with seventh grade choir, The Rhythm of Life from the Musical Sweet Charity, Aatonbo, a Japanese folk song, Stompbox with some stuffing and no real words. And finally, Bill Wither's original lovely day. Enjoy. Seventh grade [Music] choir. When I started down the street last Sunday, [Music] go and neighbor. There's a million reasons why you should be glad in all four segreg The rhythm of life is a powerful and [Music] [Music] athmos in Milwaukee. Take a walk to Rocky Ridge all the way to Canton then to even [Music] Manre. Flip your wings and fly up high. Flip your wings and fly up high. Flip your wings and fly up high. Fly fly up high. You can do it if you try. You can do it if you try. You can do it if you try. Try try to climb. To feel the rhythm of life. To feel the powerful beat. To feel the tingle in your fingers. To feel the tingle in your feet. to hear the [Music] beat. Jingle tingle your heart. [Applause] We are king of the holy. Oh, there is [Music] [Music] no serend. And the way of the Lord she comes [Music] dragon fly in the twilight sky I Red Dragon fly. [Music] Red Dragon fly when the day [Music] [Music] is wow. Red [Music] Dragon will be done. of the [Music] [Applause] [Music] joy. Nah. Laal [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Yal yeah yeah yeah [Music] [Music] D. You're young. [Music] D. Nah. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. One. Heat. Heat. N. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh, daddy. Mama know it. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] That's when I wake up in the morning. love and the sunlight hurts my [Music] eyes. And when I'm in love, there's going to be on my mind when I look at you and the world's all right with me. just want to look at [Music] you and I know it's going to be a lovely lovely day. [Music] Day love day. Love day. Love day. Love day. [Music] The lies ahead of me seems impossible to face. When someone else instead of me, always seem to know the way. Then I look at you. Then I look at you. And I love you. Just look at you [Music] and [Music] love. [Music] Day lovely day. Lovely day. Lovely day. Lovely day. Lovely day. Lovely day. Lovely day. The lies ahead of me seems impossible to face. What someone else said to me always seems to know the way. Then I look at you. Then I look at you. And I look at you and the world's all right with me. Just one look at you. Just one look at you. And then [Music] I'll be a day a lovely a lovely lovely day. Love happy love day. Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day. It's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a lovely [Applause] day. Okay, treble choir, you can make your way to your singing spots. while they get ready. This treble player has been an awesome group to sing with this year. We meet on Mondays and Thursdays. They've been rehearsing so well, making really good sounds. And they're just really fun fun singers. Tonight, they're going to share three pieces with you. It's going to really showcase their range, their passion, and really their growth as musicians. We'll start with Music of Life by VE Boyin. It's a a song that celebrates the beauty of music. After that, we'll sing dance and follow that by defying gravity from Wicked. We're so proud of what you accomplished this year. Mommy is in all growing things and underneath a silky wings of smallest there is a pulse of air that must be heard. Music is in all [Music] roads. Music is in all growing things where silence lives and throwing from the vibrant strings of his poor heart. A measure flings. Music is in a growing [Music] place. Mommy and daddy. Mommy and daddy [Music] shall trump [Music] true and it [Music] be great of the listening. Music. Music is in all living things. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom to the boom boom boom. to the ground. We can all be different. There's no fear or shame. Oh, but I still love you. Love you just the same. We can all be different. There's no fear or shame. Oh, but I still love you. Love you just the same. Dance to the drum. Dance to the drum. We can all be different. There's no fear or shame. Oh, but I still love you. Love you just the same. We can all be different. There's no fear or shame. Oh, but I still love you. Love you just the same. Justice. Oh, [Music] justice. Oh, justice. I open my shop. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Break it down now. Dance to the rhythm. Dance to the rhythm. the rhythm of your own. Something has changed within me. Something is not the same. I'm feeling by the rules of someone else's [Music] games. Too late for circulating. Too late to go back to sleep. It's time to trust my instincts. Close my eyes and believe. It's time to try to [Applause] [Music] find and you can't pull me down. I'm through accepting limits cuz someone says they're so some things I cannot change but till I try I'll never know. Too long I've been afraid of losing love. I guess I lost. If that love becomes that much to my [Music] super gravity goodbye gravity and you can't pull me down. [Music] limited. My future is [Music] unlimited. And I just had a vision almost like a prophecy. I know it sounds truly crazy and true. The vision's hazing. But I swear someday I'll be up in the sky defying gravity. Flying so high defying gravity. They'll never pull me down. [Music] So if you care to find me, look to the western sky. As someone told me lately, everyone deserves a chance to fly. And if I'm flying so low, at least I'm flying free. To those who ground me, take a message back from me. Tell them how I defying gravity. I'm flying defying gravity and soon I'll in nobody in all of us. No wizard that there is or was ever going to bring me down. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] We've got two more songs for you tonight. High schoolers, will you join us? Eighth graders, will you join us? Okay. So, up next includes some audience participation. The lyrics are in your program for country road taking home. Please sing along. We'll sing both songs back to back without um without much talking. So, I'll do all my thank yous and and end of concert things now. Um, a special thanks to Scott Highlands administration staff and especially music staff for their support along uh this especially these last few weeks getting ready for our concert. We always appreciate support from the school board and superintendent Michael Bone in supporting the AAA philosophy for ISD 196. Really means a lot. Special thank you to Renee Williams for her excellent playing tonight. Let's give it up for Miss Parents. Thank you so much for supporting music in schools. It makes a huge difference in their lives. This community is fantastic. Great group of humans behind me. And the future is so bright with so much talent. And please keep on singing. Keep music in your life. As we come to the end of our our first concert of the night and prepare for our final piece give us hope, I want to take a moment to reflect on how many meaningful breakthroughs we've seen in rehearsal, especially this past week. Moments that remind me how much heart, growth, and promise that this group carries. Now, let's raise our voices and one last time lift this room with song, with a song that says it all. Give us hope. But first, here's our sing [Applause] along. Almost heaven, West Virginia, the ridge mountain, Shannondo river. [Music] Life is all there. Older than the trees, younger than the mountains. Growing like a breeze. [Applause] West Virginia mountain take me home country road all my memories you gather around her ladies strangers in water dark and dusty See you painting on the sky. Misty taste of moonshine. Tear drop in my eyes. [Music] [Music] West Virginia mountain take me home country road. I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me. The radio reminds me of my home far away. Driving down this road, I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday. Yesterday. [Applause] [Music] West Virginia mountain take me home. Country road country take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia mountain, take me home. Country roads, take me home, country roads, take me home, country [Music] road. [Applause] [Music] Listen to the sound of my voice. Can you feel the beat of my heart? Listen to the questions I have. Listen to me. It's all very [Music] simple to see what we [Music] need. Give us hope. My voice is calling. Can you see? Look in my eyes. Can you feel? My hand is reaching. Give us hope and we'll show you the way. Listen to the sound of my voice. Calling. Can you feel the beat of my heart pounding? Listen to the questions I have. Listen, to [Music] me, give us hope. My voice is calling. Can you see? Look in my eyes. Can you feel? My hand is reaching. Give us all and we'll show you the way. Take my hand now. Look in my eyes. Tell me what you see. My voice is look in my eyes. Can you feel my hand is reaching? Give us all and we'll show you the way. [Music] My voice is falling. Can you see? Look in my eyes. Can you feel? My hand is all and we'll show you the way. Show you the way. Show you the way. [Music] Show you the way. [Applause] [Applause] [Music] What's it mean? Wow. [Music] [Music] Everybody, won't You put your phone on my bra. You [Music] will wait. [Applause] without your cell phone ringing. Let's all enjoy some uninterrupted [Music] singing right now. Your kids can show you how Just do it now. Don't be that guy. Now you're running out of time. This is the end of the song. If you haven't done it yet, turn it off. Do it now or you'll probably forget your calls. Can't wait till you get home. So while your ears turn off your phone. [Applause] Hello and welcome to our Scott Highlands spring choir concert. My name is Beth Edgar and I direct the choirs here at Scott Highlands. And this concert features eighth grade choir, tener bass choir, and ac capella choir. And so much talent. We're so excited to share our next songs together. I think you'll also hear the progress from the January concert to now. They've made some real strides in their sound, in how they rehearse. It's been an awesome, awesome group. Um, so after January's concert, we do a winter choir Olympics where we do a long note challenge, a high note challenge, a low note challenge. a masked singer challenge, a no blurt challenge, we did a choir spelling bee, we did a finger light rehearsal. We had a lot of fun. We've got a variety of songs for you this evening featuring all of this talent. And we have programs, digital programs that you can scan and see QR codes around the room as well as printed programs. The song that you just heard was the turn off your phone song. It's a fun reminder to help remind you that distractions are distracting to our performances. So, thank you for being mindful and good a good audience for this performance. You'll hear four more songs with eighth grade choir. Um, the next one is a text by Langston Hughes, Hold Fast to Dreams. You'll hear really a high school level song featuring soprano, alto, tener, and bass voices. That's followed by Malaka Tumba with some body percussion. This is me from the greatest showman. And finally down by the riverside, the first hold fastest to dreams. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hold fast to [Music] dreams for it if dreams Life is a broken wing bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to [Music] dreams for it dreams die. Life is a broken wing bird that cannot fly. [Music] Hold fast to dream. Hold fast to dream. for itself. For dreams is a broken reason that cannot fly. [Music] Hold fast to dream. Hold fast to dream. For every dream life is unbroken. is a bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go. Life is a barren field frozen with snow. Hold fast to dreams for dreams. Life is a fear frozen with snow. [Music] [Music] Hold fast to dreams [Music] for in dreams die. Life is a broken wing bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams for dreams die. Life is a broken wing bird that cannot fly. A broken wing that can not fly. Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] Amba [Music] potato I am Say to [Music] you to you. [Music] [Music] Say to [Music] you say to you Hey 72. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I am not a stranger to the dark. Hide away, they say. Cuz we don't want your broken parts. I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars. Run away they say cuz no one will love you as you are. But I won't let them break me down to dust. I know that there's a place for us for we are [Music] glorious. I am brave. I am Bruce. I am who I'm meant to be. This is me. Look out cuz here I come. And I'm maring on to the beat I drunk. I'm not scared to be seen. I make no apologies. This is me. Oh. [Music] Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. Another round of bullets in my skin. We'll fire away cuz today I won't let the shame sink in. We are [Music] waroring down. I know that there's a place for us. For we are [Music] glorif I'm not scared to be seen. I make no apologies. This is [Music] [Music] me. Oh, this is [Music] me. Oh. Oh, the sharpest words want to cut me down. Going to send a flag. Going to drown out. This is brave. This is Bruce. This is who I'm meant to be. This is me. Here I go. [Applause] We have to be to be seen. I make no apologies. This is [Music] me. Oh, this is me. [Applause] [Music] Lay down my bird is so [Music] lay down my bird is so down by the Sunny no [Music] more children down by the river side down by the river by the river. [Music] I ain't got I ain't got a stud. I ain't going to stud for no more. I ain't going to study. I ain't going to [Music] stud. Down by the river side. Down by the river side by the [Music] river. I ain't going to die. I ain't going. I ain't going to stud for no more. I ain't going to die. But I got sorry no [Music] more no more. No more stud. Lay down my burdens. Lay down my sword. Lay down. Lay down by the river side. [Music] Lay down my burdens by the river. Down by the river by the river [Music] side. No more. No [Music] more. No more. No more. [Music] So this is our tenor bass ensemble. We meet on Tuesdays and Fridays in the midday time. And this group has been awesome to sing with this year. Um we we just had lots of fun with this group. It's really a good group of good group of humans. Um we're going to do three songs today. Uh raise your voice in song by Derek Fox celebrating the joy of singing. Then a mashup of Hey there Delilah and 1 2 3 4. And finally we'll close with a song called Duct Tape. Enjoy. [Music] Raise your voice. Sing a new song. Raise your voice in song. Raise your voice. Sing a new song. Raise your voice in song. [Music] Raise your voice in song. Raise your voice. Sing a song. Raise your voice in song. Praise your [Music] voice. Your voice and song. Sing a new song. All those days when you feel when you feel alone. [Music] Find what makes you [Music] strong. It's the voice that lives within the voice that sings in you. [Music] Raise your voice, sing a new song. Raise your voice in song. Raise your voice, sing a new song. Raise your voice in song. Look inside. Find your voice. It's what makes you strong. Raise your [Music] [Applause] voicees. Hey there, Delila. What's it like in New York City? I'm a thousand miles away. My girl tonight you look so pretty. Yes. Time square can shine as bright as you. I swear it's [Music] true. The don't you worry about the distance. Stop right there. If you can only hear this song, close your [Music] eyes. Listen to my voice. It's my I'm by your side. Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to [Music] me. Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to me. what you do to me. Hey there, I know times are getting hard, but just believe me, girl. Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar. We'll have it good. We'll have the life we knew we would. My heart is [Music] good. I've got so much left to say. Every single song I wrote to you will take your breath [Music] away. We have it all. Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to me. Oh, it's what you do to me. [Music] [Applause] is what [Music] she thms pretty far, but they got planes and trains and cars. I'd walk to you. I had no other way. Our friends will all make fun of us and we'll just laugh along because we know that none of them has felt this way. I I can promise you that by the time we get through, the world will never ever be the same. And you're lame. Hey there, Delila. Good. Two more years and you'll be done with school and I'll be making history like I do. It's all because of you. We can do whatever we want to do to you. This one's for you. 1 2 1 2 3 [Music] 4 I ever had it all inside. Tell me when I know you feel good when you're so bad. I'm so glad I found you. around [Music] you. 1 2 3 4 I love I love you. There's only one 2. I love I love you. [Music] I love you. One 2 3 4 I love you. I love you. [Applause] Many years ago, in a darker time, people lived in chaos. All around them, things seemed to fall apart. Clothes ripped, vessels leaked, appliances fell into disrepair. But one day, something amazing was created that changed the world. Was a strong sword? No. A powerful wand? Don't be ridiculous. A magic ring? Well, sort of. That amazing thing was the first ever roll of duct tape. [Music] from Robert with begging. So it would be granted whoever was possessed the power to face. He has magic more potent than her. He's stronger than the thunder. He's growing the world can coner. So keep it here. It always comes in you. Duct [Music] tape. Duct tape. A sticky as in your braces with [Music] [Applause] [Music] Field it with courage and honor. No sticky situation will you [Applause] be to have great adventures as [Music] [Music] Take the old easy chair. It can fashion a tar. If you jump in a van, they can bend busted sticks. There's nothing that dictate. [Music] It can make a bouquet. It can patch up a hole in a led. There's nothing that I'm [Music] [Music] taking. D. [Music] [Applause] [Applause] Okay, I think we're set for our next group. This is our ac capella group that meets once a week on Thursday mornings. This has been a really fun group to work with as well. When you saw them in January, you didn't see any choreography of any sort. So, we added that for this second song from The Greatest Showman called The Greatest Show. [Applause] Okay, these guys are amazing. Enjoy it. [Music] So, wo wo. Oh wo wo wo. This is the great theories. Wo! This is the great theories. Wo! This is the great [Music] the ladies and gents, this is the moment you waited for. You've been searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor. And buried in your bones there's a name that you can't ignore. Taking a breath. And all is left behind. Don't fight it. It's coming. You're running at you. It's only this moment. Don't care what comes after. You'll feel your dream. Can't you see it getting closer? Just surrender cuz you feel the feeling taking over. It's fire. It's freedom. It's clotting over. It's a picture in the pulpit and you'll find emotion. There's something breaking at the brick of every wall that's holding all that you know. So tell me, do you want to go where it's covered in all the colored lights? Where the runways are running in the night. Impossible comes true. It's taking over you all. We light it up. We won't come down. And the sun can't stop us now. Watching it come true. It's taking over you. Oh sh and the crown on the surface. Don't fight it. It's coming for you. It's only this moment. Don't you like your lighting up shining inside you surrendering cuz you coming and you want to go and all the color lights are running tonight over you. We light it up. We won't come down. And the sun can't stop us now. We're watching you come true and watching you. Every day will be you in front of you. This is where you want to be. You want to be where you want. It's everything you ever need. Everything you ever see in front of you. This is where you want to be. This is where you want to be. Where it's covered in all the color lights. Where the runways running in the night. Impossible comes true. Taking over you. We light it up. We won't come down. And the sun can't stop us now. Oh, this is the greatest show. Oh, this is the greatest show. Wow. [Applause] Yeah, we've got two more songs for you tonight and we'll do those back to back. So, at this point, I will ask the high schoolers to join us for our finale. And everyone, will you stand, please? I'm so grateful for the tradition that we started of inviting the high schoolers back to join us in singing. It's been really awesome to see them again and to show the middle schoolers that they can still sing in the high school and there's so much to look forward to. and then I can see you again next year at this time to sing our finale as well for eighth graders. High schoolers, thank you so much for spending your time with us. We're so grateful for you. A few other thank yous. Scott Highland's administration, thank you so much for your support. We couldn't do it without you. Teachers, thank you so much for your support. Um, I have a shadow from Gavis that has helped me for the last two weeks. Will, thank you so much for your help this tonight in this last couple weeks. Um, thanks to the school board, to Superintendent Michael Bosone, and this AAA philosophy that we have in 196 of arts, academics, athletics. It's true. And you see that here with with this awesome group of kids. They do it all. Let's thank Renee Williams for her awesome playing today. Thank you to our custodians who helped set up for these events. And because we love our custodians, can you please help staff the chairs to clear the space for school tomorrow? That would be very helpful. Parents, thank you so much for supporting your child in their singing and all they do. We really appreciate it. And the future is so bright with all this talent up here. As we come to the end of our concert and prepare for our final piece, Give Us Hope, I want to take a moment to reflect on the many meaningful breakthroughs we've seen in rehearsal, especially these last couple weeks. And it reminds me how much heart and growth and promise that this group has. And for our final song, we'll raise our voices one last time in a song that says it all. Give us hope. And first, join us in singing Country Road, Take Me Home. [Music] Almost heaven, West Virginia, the Red Mountain Shannon River. Life is old there. Older than the trees, younger than the mountains. Growing like a breeze. Country road to the place. I'm alone. West [Music] Virginia mama. Take me home. All my memories gather around her. My lady stranger to blue water. Dark and dusty paint on the sky. Misty taste of moonshine. Tear drop in my eye. Country. Take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia mountain. Take me home country road. I hear her voice in the morning hours. She calls me. The radio reminds me of my home far away. Driving down the road, I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday. [Music] [Applause] history to the place I belong. West Virginia mountain take me home country road country road take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia mountain take me home country road take me home country road take me home country [Applause] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Listen to the sound of my voice. Can you feel the beat of my heart? Listen to the questions I have. Listen to me. It's all very simple to see what we need. Give us hope. My voice is calling. Can you see? Look in my eyes. Can you feel my hand is reaching? Give us hope and we'll show you the [Music] way. Listen to the sound of my voice. Can you feel the beat of my heart? How deep? Listen to the questions I have. Listen to me. We are the future. Help us believe. Give us hope. My voice is calling. Can you see? Look in my eyes. Can you feel? My hand is reaching. Give us hope and we'll show you the way. Take my hand. Now look in my eyes. Tell me what you [Music] see. Hear my soul. My voice is calling. Can you see? Look in my eyes. Can you feel? My hand is reaching. Give us all and we'll show you the way. Give us all my Can you see? Look in my eyes. And you feel my hand is all and will show you the way. Show you the way. My voice is calling. Show you the way. My voice is calling. Show you the way. [Applause]