Honors Choir

To some, choir is the last class of the day. To a few people it is a stress reliever, and to others, it is a rare form of art and emotion. It is a smile, a tragedy, a way of life. Choir to those people is the best time of the day. They work hard and try to improve and excel in their music skills. It is because of their dedication and hard work that seven members of the Cedar Grove-Belgium High School Choir were chosen by Linda Ruona to represent our school in the CLC Honors Choir.
Alannah Bruggink, Cody May, Jordan Dykstra, Britney Lemke, Jackie Schrader, Eva Lee, and Richard Beabout were this years representatives for Cedar Grove-Belgium. There were nine schools that attended: Cedar Grove-Belgium, Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah, Howards Grove, Kohler, Oostburg, Ozaukee, Random Lake, Sheboygan County Christian, and Sheboygan Lutheran.


On December 13th, all the participants met at UW Sheboygan to practice with the directors from the different schools. They prepared the songs and got familiar with the rhythms and notes. After Christmas break on January 8th, the students went to practice again with a clinition. This year’s clinition was Greg Carpenter, the choir director at Marquette University. All the songs were practiced for the concert and the little problems were fixed.


The concert began at 7:00 pm at UW Sheboygan. The first song was “Eliza Jane” followed by “Roses I Send To You”. “Workin’ for the Dawn of Peace”, “Homeland”, and “Esto Les Digo” were the next three songs in the concert. The last song, “Praise His Holy Name!” was an upbeat spiritual and was a favorite of the majority of the participants. The concert lasted only twenty-five minutes, but the theatre was filled with beautiful music that left goose bumps and shivers with the audience. The 67 participants worked extremely hard and performed a breathtaking concert.