THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents
The Capital Children’s Choir
Suzanne Rita Byrnes, Director
Addy Burwell, Collaborative Pianist
CCC Interns
Julia Chaves, Jodie Cheung, Anna Urbine
2040 Field Experience Students (Mark Belfast)
Aspen Atwood, Elijah Davis, Caden Early, Taylor Livingston, Sophie
Nagy, Ben Reid, Veronica Saavedra-Howell, Haydyn Scrimgeour, Rebecca Smith
Volunteers
Crystal Berner, Calliope DeChant
Peer Role Model
Markus Jackson (Godby High School)
Monday, December 9, 2024 6:30 p.m. | Opperman Music Hall
ABOUT THE CAPITAL CHILDREN’S CHOIR
The FSU Capital Children’s Choir is a community outreach program for children in Kindergarten through eighth grade. The FSU College of Music sponsors CCC. The program was first started in 1957 under the name “Tallahassee Junior Chorus” and was directed by Lois Laverne Schnoor (later Ballard). After several years of non-existence, the choir was reinstated as a children’s opera chorus by then teaching assistant Michael Braz (under the guidance of Dr. Clifford Madsen) in the summer of 1981 and later became the children’s choir proper. After another lag, faculty took the helm of the program. Many thanks to Dr. Judy Bowers and Dr. Kim VanWeelden for upholding CCC for a decade each! In time, the program evolved into be the ensemble standing before you today, which includes internship, field experience, and volunteer opportunities for college students, as well as perr role model opportunities for high school students.
Thanks are extended to Dr. Mark Belfast for sending us enthusiastic and helpful field experience students and to Dr. Ann Herrington and Crystal Berner for providing the elementary music lab experience for our students in 2-5 grades. The aim of the program is to teach appropriate singing techniques and music to children in an enjoyable, safe, and noncompetitive atmosphere; we focus on process over product.
Thank you to the Florida State University College of Music students who donate their time to work with the children and to the parents/grandparents/guardians who bring them to us every week! Gratitude is extended to the Dean of the College of Music, Dr. Todd Queen, and to all our community supporters.
The FSU Capital Children’s Choir will resume on Monday, January 27, 2025. NEW MEMBERS WILL BE ACCEPTED STARTING NOW! Visit “FSU CAPITAL CHILDREN’S CHOIR” on Facebook for details, or visit music.fsu.edu/capital-childrens-choir.
Have a safe and happy holiday break!
To Ensure An Enjoyable Concert Experience For All…
Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting during performances. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Recording or broadcasting of the concert by any means, including the use of digital cameras, cell phones, or other devices is expressly forbidden. Please deactivate all portable electronic devices including watches, cell phones, pagers, hand-held gaming devices or other electronic equipment that may distract the audience or performers.
Recording Notice: This performance may be recorded. Please note that members of the audience may at times be included in this process. By attending this performance you consent to have your image or likeness appear in any live or recorded video or other transmission or reproduction made in conjunction to the performance.
Florida State University provides accommodations for persons with disabilities. Please notify the College of Music at (850) 644-3424 at least five working days prior to a musical event to request accommodation for disability or alternative program format.
Let’s Sing A Song Now Traditional
When You Grow Up
Willard A. Palmer
Johnny Works With One Hammer Folk Song
A Sailor Went to Sea Folk Song
Purple Stew Folk Song
Hop Old Squirrel Folk Song
I Had a Silly Chicken Traditional
The Birthday Song
Let’s Sing Together Channel
Hey Dum Diddley Marc Stone
Elijah Davis, piano
African Noel Liberian Folk Song
Goodbye Traditional
Choir
Do You Hear the Shepherd?
The Crocodile
Sing a Song of Merry Christmas
Combined Choirs
Kimberly Ingram
Lewis Carroll
music by Ruth Morris Gray
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Ehret
This Little Light of Mine arr. Ken Berg
When You Believe (from Prince of Egypt)
Tian Sanchez-Ballado, cello
Stephen Schwartz arr. Audrey Snyder
Seminole Choir
Wishing Star
Beth Bolton arr. Laura Farnell
Garnet Choir
Gold
Combined Choirs
Calypso Lullaby Jester Hairston arr. Joel Raney
Isaac Roman, flute; Layla Feaster, bass; college student helpers, percussion
Sing Your Way Home Traditional
Sing your way home, at the end of the day.
Sing your way home, drive the shadows away.
Smile every mile for wherever you roam It will brighten your road, it will lighten your load, If you sing your way home.
GARNET CHOIR
Lillian Grace Cooksey, Homeschooled
Nairobi Dallas, Brownsville Preparatory Institute
Emmett Fields, Cornerstone Learning Community
Conor Grennan, SAST
Rhys Hutchison, Homeschooled
GOLD/SEMINOLE CHOIR
Isabella Hart, Kate Sullivan Elementary
Josephine Hart, Kate Sullivan Elementary
Elijah Fermin, SAST
Ella Garcia, Homeschooled
Joanna Gonzalez, Cornerstone Learning Community
Alexa Guo, Gilchrist Elementary
Mason Guo, Gilchrist Elementary
Lina Fields, Cornerstone Learning Community
Afton Gray, SAST
Molly Hutchison, Homeschooled
Cambria Knox, SASC
Ally Li, Killearn Lakes Elementary
Quincie Lewis, FSUS
Gabriel Muhammed, Astoria Park Elementary
Gideon Parker, Homeschooled
Timothy Parker, Homeschooled
Nate Valentine, De Soto Trails Elementary
Sierra Love, Cobb Middle
Jane Luke, SAST
Austin Mann, Montford Middle
Eamon Morton-Murray, SAST
Golda Morton-Murray, SAST
Leo Pang, Homeschooled
Josiah Parker, Homeschooled
Elysia “Eiya” Porter, SAST
Jenna Poston, Kate Sullivan Elementary
Penelope (Penny) Robinson, SAST
Seohyeok Wi, Killearn Lakes Elementary
Charlotte Yeoh, Killearn Lake Elementary
SASC - School of Arts and Sciences at the Center
SAST - School of Arts and Sciences, Thomasville Road