Dallas ISD Students in concert this Saturday at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters

Friday, December 14, 2012

Dallas ISD Students in concert this Saturday at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters

Dallas ISD Christmas/Kwanzaa Mass Choir at TBAAL - Curtis King, Producer

Treat yourself, friends and family to a gift guaranteed to put you on the right beat and in the rhythm of the season.

20th Annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert

featuring

South Oak Cliff, Lincoln, Carter and Kimball High School Choirs

with the

Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center Big D Band

Produced by Curtis King

This Saturday, December 15 -- 8:00 pm

The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL)

Dallas Convention Center Theater Complex
1309 Canton Street
Dallas, TX 75201

Today I attended the student morning performance, along with classes of attentive elementary students, sponsored by Big Thought. Student responses, applause and longings for more showed they learned and appreciated this artistic experience.

Hope you will take this opportunity to hear more than 350 voices light up the holiday season at this outstanding concert, including the premier performance of "Sweetly Sleeping," written/composed by Lisa Jenkins, music director at Lincoln High School.

Many thanks to Dallas ISD participating music conductors: Demetrius Ethley, Carter High School; Bruce Limuel, Kimball High School; Lisa Jenkins, Lincoln High School; Michelle Magee, South Oak Cliff High School; Dean Hill, Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnate Center.

Much appreciation to Curtis King and the professional musicians, stage crew and support team he incorporates into every Dallas ISD partnership for our students.

For more information about the Saturday performance, contact:

The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL)
Phone: (214) 743-2440
Fax: (214) 743-2451
Box Office: (214) 743-2400
Email: info@tbaal.org

Dallas ISD Students experience 20th Annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Friday, December 14, 2012

Dallas ISD Students in concert this Saturday at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters

Support Public Education

DALLAS ISD Blog