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VOLUME 43 ISSUE 1
February 26, 2020
Got Talent contestants showcase variety of skills ABBEY KROENER Sports Editor
Teachers. Students. Talent. Mix them all together on a Friday night and you've got a variety of talents in a show, with a large audience to watch. January 31, at seven sharp, the curtain opened introducing the first act. Ryan Blosser thought the show was “amazing because so many students and teachers came out. Whoever won, whoever lost, it was just about entertaining those that came out, bought a ticket and watched the show.” He added that “it was a lot of fun and awesome to see all the other acts and I'm glad that I did it,” adds Blosser. Yearbook and English teacher Carla Harward controls the show with her yearbook staff. She thought that, “overall, it went very smoothly.” She admitted there were some challenges throughout preparing for the show and as the night took place.“It was difficult getting everybody to give us their music, props and trying to get them to rehearse,some didn't even show up to rehearsals.” Harward added, “on the last day, the Friday of the show, people got sick and couldn't make it.” She explains that they had to find fill ins. “Students are awesome, they stepped up to be in it on the day
of,” says the show coordinator. She adds that if she could do one thing differently next year, she “would make more rehearsals for
turn out and it was the best show in years. We made the most money and had a lot of great acts to keep the show going.”
someone who doesn't dance or doesn't have rhythm at all, it was a little hard, but not too difficult to get down.”
There are 7 teacher acts and and over 12 student acts at the recent Got Talent Event. The Harmonics took home first place in the annual competition after they sang a medley of pop music. PHOTO CREDIT: Staff
next year because this year we only had two and not everyone showed up or got enough practice with a rundown of the whole show.” Yearbook staff member Kelsie Collier helped organize the show and she claims that “it went really well, we had a great
Within the many acts both the journalism staff and yearbook staff were high competitors as they both performed group dances. Hannah Scheide was a part of the journalism staff’s dance, she claims the dance was practiced for about two weeks and “for
Scheide adds that overall, “I think everyone did great, personally I messed up a few times but I think we looked pretty good and I had a lot of fun when performing the dance.”While Collier was dancing for the yearbook staff who stated they worked on their
dance for about a month before the show, “everyone knew the dance and we knew what each teacher and student were doing.” Collier says, “it’s always fun because you get to put the show together as a class and make a fun dance.” She thought “yearbook’s act was the best because it was tik toks and they were funny dances, plus everyone was on beat and we had a good time making the dance.” Journalism and English teacher Jennifer Chandler explains that she likes the talent show because “you get to do things that you wouldn't normally have a chance to do and participate in a way that allows you to have fun and sort of let your hair down.” The teacher says she enjoys doing “fun skits to have students get a chance to see people who have personality and lives.” Scheide thought the talent show was “interesting”, she said she was surprised. “There is a lot of talent that I didn't know about in our school.” According to the student, her favorite act was Manual. Chandler said, it is “too hard to choose a favorite act; it's like asking me to choose my favorite child.” Although she did say, “I can't sing, so you can put anybody who can sing as one of my favorites.”
Making dreams into reality in California;
Henkel accepted into pre-professional program RACHEL KEENEY H/S Editor With hundreds of applicants trying to reach the same goal, and only eight spots left, the pressure was intense for senior Max Henkel, who recently was accepted into a pre-professional program called A Cappella Academy. The musician will get to work with Avi Kaplan, a member of the Pentatonix, and Ben Bram, the man who writes all the music for them. A Cappella Academy is a twoweek summer program in Los Angeles that has hundreds of applicants, and they accept 70 total. While at the camp, performers create music with groups of about seven people. On top of performing music with a group, participants also can learn about
other aspects of a cappella and get feedback from members of the Pentatonix. The Academy can only accept eight vocal percussionists. Henkel said, “as soon as I heard about the opportunity, I knew I had to audition, even though it was a fiercely competitive program. I worked really hard preparing my video audition to make sure it was perfect.” Henkel also
Henkel competes against hundred of other singers to gain a spot in an a cappella camp. The preparation for the experience began months ago. PHOTO CREDIT: Staff
added he is looking forward to “working closely with the most famous A Cappella musicians in the world” and that he will be able “to network with the other students attending there and making valuable musical connections that will last a lifetime.” When Henkel received the email with the results, he said he “stared at his phone for several minutes” before opening the email. Henkel’s father and sister insisted that he open it, and once he finally did, Henkel was in “complete and utter shock, and then euphoria, and [he] still [hasn’t] wrapped [his] head around it.” While at the camp,
Henkel has been assigned the “major” of arranging music. Henkel says he is excited to learn new aspects of a cappella and listen to songs that he will have to rewrite to fit the correct musical genre. Henkel can't wait to use this “once in a lifetime opportunity”, to expand his knowledge on a cappella. “In terms of broad perspective, one musical goal I have is to attempt to utilize a choir in film score music more often that it's currently being used,” Henkel says. “I want to do this because I think that the emotional impact that a choir has far exceeds what instruments can produce, and I want to capture that raw emotion in my film score.” Henkel says his biggest focus is trying to obtain “its unique composition style.”