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 Car washes for Italy Fund Raising at Sonny Bryan's on June 21 and July 19, and August 23. Come get clean! Car washes for Italy Fund Raising at Sonny Bryan's on June 21 and July 19 and August 23! Don't miss this! 
Pearce Choir is TMEA Honor Choir for 2008!
Vocalists Earn Top Texas High School Honor
by Michael Lysinger and Laura Taylor   
September 17, 2007
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Second Summer Car Wash a success!
 The J.J. Pearce High School Choral program is rich in a tradition of excellence and quality in musical performance and experience. The success of the choral program is centered on students who are committed to excellence, and that excellence has earned the Pearce A Cappella choir the highest choral honor, the 2008 State Honor Choir. 
 These students will prepare a special concert of music and travel to San Antonio to present their concert to the Texas Music Educators Conference in February of 2008. So it is an exciting year for the Pearce Choral Department.  Student’s willingness to establish short and long-term goals for improvement in vocal technique and music reading are rewarded.   The program offers many opportunities for our students, daily voice training, choral contests, social events, music theory, vocal performance, and camaraderie with friends while making music. 
The J. J. Pearce Choral Department Handbook for 2007-2008 gives specifics about the program and RISD music guidelines.  We invite you to keep up to date with our program and music on this web site.  Keep singing!
MUM STORE OPENS FOR SUMMER!
Pearce fundraiser brings groups together.
by Jill Button   
June 23, 2008
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We are delighted to announce that the Pearce Mum store will once again be sharing the profits of the Homecoming mum effort with organizations such as choir.  It is so easy for you to come and enjoy a few hourse of fellowship and ribbon cutting- make money for the choir and the PTA in one easy sitting.  Last year choir was the group awarded the most hours (profit) and it helped our organization greatly. 

 So, come and spend a few hours a week.  You won't be sorry.  We have two BIG choir work days where we want everyone to help.  They are Thursday June 26 between the hours of 5-9PM and Wednesday July 2 between 10AM-3PM.  Just come when you can and stay as long as you can.  Sign in on the choir work detail.  The beginning work is mostly cutting and is very easy to do. 

Pearce Choir to Tour Italy in June 2009
by Michael Lysinger   
May 15, 2008
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As you may have heard from your choir student, the JJ Pearce HS Choral Department will be traveling to Italy to perform in June of 2009! We are very excited about the invitation to perform at the Vatican and the opportunity to perform in other beautiful venues in Venice, Florence and Rome  it promises to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for your student and yourself! We are planning a 10-day comprehensive tour that will take us through the major cities and countryside of Italy. The trip is open to all students and parents of next years PHS choir plus our choir seniors of 2008 (and their parents). The trip is being planned by Rick Dillard, president of American Classic Festivals and Tours.

 Download the tour information packet below1
Download : Italy Tour Proposal
Italy Fund Raising Opportunities
May 30, 2008
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Download the list of great fund raisers provided by our new Italy fund raising Comittee.  Fabulous opportunites to get involved in. 
Download : Italy Fundraisers
SUMMER CAR WASHES!
June 05, 2008
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Students kick off a summer of car washes in May at Sonny Bryan's on Campbell Rd.

Stop by Sonny Bryans on three dates this summer.  Get your car washed by Pearce Choir members and stop in for some barbeque too.  Yumm!

The dates are:

June 21

July 19

August 23.

Thanks to Sonny Bryans on the corner of Mimosa and Campbell for their support of the Pearce Choir Italy Tour!
The Entertainment was all in good fun.
May 23, 2008
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We will miss these 22 graduates who have meant so much to the choir program. Good Luck!

The annual choir banquet was held at the Crown Plaza hotel on May  21, 200.  The food was good, the company was supurb and the skits were hilarious.  Seniors were honored with a framed Pearce letter and awards were given.  We reveiwed the year in skits, slides, and song.

 Thanks to Lori Thiedeman and Susie Shnider for organizing the banquet.
A Word to our Graduates
Dana Gioia Commencement Address
June 23, 2008
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Following is the final portion of a prepared text of the speech delivered by Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, at Commencement exercises at Stanford  on June 17, 2007.

 Distinguished graduates, your support system is about to end. And you now face the choice of whether you want to be a passive consumer or an active citizen. Do you want to watch the world on a screen or live in it so meaningfully that you change it? That's no easy task, so don't forget what the arts provide. Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world—equal to but distinct from scientific and conceptual methods. Art addresses us in the fullness of our being—simultaneously speaking to our intellect, emotions, intuition, imagination, memory, and physical senses. There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. 

Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions. And it remembers. As Robert Frost once said about poetry, "It is a way of remembering that which it would impoverish us to forget." Art awakens, enlarges, refines, and restores our humanity. You don't outgrow art. The same work can mean something different at each stage of your life. A good book changes as you change. My own art is poetry, though my current daily life sometimes makes me forget that. So let me end my remarks with a short poem appropriate to the occasion. 

[PRAISE TO THE RITUALS THAT CELEBRATE CHANGE]
Praise to the rituals that celebrate change,
old robes worn for new beginnings,
solemn protocol where the mutable soul,
surrounded by ancient experience, grows
young in the imagination's white dress.
Because it is not the rituals we honor
but our trust in what they signify, these rites
that honor us as witnesses—whether to watch
lovers swear loyalty in a careless world
or a newborn washed with water and oil.
So praise to innocence—impulsive and evergreen—
and let the old be touched by youth's
wayward astonishment at learning something new,
and dream of a future so fitting and so just
that our desire will bring it into being.
Summer All-State Camps Announced
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May 02, 2008
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Below you can click on the download button to find area All-State music camps for this summer.  This is an excellent way to get a head start on the rigorous pracitice needed to compete in the choir contests in the fall. 
Download : All State Camps SUmmer 08
What is CHARMS?
September 13, 2007
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This year the Pearce Choir as well as other RISD music classes are using a system called CHARMS for communications and official student information.  Below is the log-in instruction sheet that was passed out in class. 

 Parents, make sure your contact information is correct as the CHARMS system takes the place of the old system of registration cards. This information is private, controlled by a password, and controlled by the directors.  We have the link listed on our "Links" page as well.
Download : "How to Log Into CHARMS"
Choir Assignments Announced
June 04, 2008
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Students have been busy auditioning for spots on next years Pearce Choirs.  Use the download button to gain access to the list of choir assignments for the 08-09 year. 
Download : 0809ChoirAuditionResults
Friends of Pearce Choir
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May 12, 2007
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If you would like to receive occasional e-mails of information and upcoming events of the J. J. Pearce Choir, please contact us at one of the following two addresses so we may let you in on all the news at the Pearce Choral department.

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Web Site Information
September 20, 2006

RISD is not responsible for and does not endorse or support content that is hosted on Web sites and servers that are not part of the RISD computer network.

   This web site is sponsored by the Pearce Area Choir Booster Club and is intended to provide information on the choral department programs and activities of the J. J. Pearce choir. You can download documents as indicated in the stories with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Get it free on our links page. Please note: it is NOT necessary to use the "log in" button the web site.  The entire content is available for public viewing. 

Pearce High School is located at 1600 North Coit Road in Richardson, Texas, 75080. 469.593.5000