music
Assumption is now a dream-come-true for East Los Angeles kids interested in music. Our curriculum is the same as one of the great choir schools of Europe, but in modern American style. Our choir children sing "from Gregorian to gospel," and our instrumentalists play classical, folk and popular music. We currently teach classical guitar, violin, violoncello, string bass, and light percussion. Our children have a special concert specialization, the presenting of the music of early Spanish California.
As a true choir school, our children read Gregorian chant in the original notation, sing sacred polyphony and learn modern cantoral and popular liturgical music leadership. Our concert choir tours each year as the Escolania Pacifica. A unique quality of our choir school program is that it begins at the earliest possible age; for our pre-kindergarten and other youngest children are fully part of the music program from the first day they enter assumption. Then, they grow all through the grades, learning some of the finest music ever composed for children. Upon graduation from assumption, they can become members of our teenage alumni ensemble, the Schola Americana.
Assumption's music program is co-sponsored by a well-known southern California choral ensemble, the Schola Cantorum of the pacific, founded by Father Ted Ley of the Marianists and conducted by Mr. Vicente Bastidas-Elizondo, who is also the choirmaster of assumption school. There is no additional fee for music lessons at assumption, because assumption itself is a choir school. Yet every child who goes to assumption receives a very thorough general education, and certain becomes well educated in the Catholic faith.
Assumption has a special program also in the communication arts. The older children maintain a campus FM radio station, creating their own programs under professional direction; these students can obtain their own amateur radio licenses, and at assumption they are amateur radio club kn6gla, "evergreen service radio," licensed by the federal communications commission as a school club, and affiliated with the American radio relay league. Other communications opportunities are worked into the school's concerts, tours and other performances, so that a student assumption school becomes very comfortable on stage an in public speaking.
Our students are currently rehearsing a "Zarzuela in English" about musical life in early California; this will be performed on tour upon its readiness. The most immediate tour plan is to present our standard concert, "from Gregorian to gospel," at the parish church of St. John Vianney in Sedona, Arizona, during Easter vacation week, 2021. Above all, our children learn that music is a great gift from god, and that all the creative arts are intended to give glory to god and joy to all people. To us, music is a special form of wisdom. And we agree with Beethoven that music is the deepest form of human communications. Your child, at assumption, will develop, through music, a daily sense of what is true, good and beautiful all their lives.
As a true choir school, our children read Gregorian chant in the original notation, sing sacred polyphony and learn modern cantoral and popular liturgical music leadership. Our concert choir tours each year as the Escolania Pacifica. A unique quality of our choir school program is that it begins at the earliest possible age; for our pre-kindergarten and other youngest children are fully part of the music program from the first day they enter assumption. Then, they grow all through the grades, learning some of the finest music ever composed for children. Upon graduation from assumption, they can become members of our teenage alumni ensemble, the Schola Americana.
Assumption's music program is co-sponsored by a well-known southern California choral ensemble, the Schola Cantorum of the pacific, founded by Father Ted Ley of the Marianists and conducted by Mr. Vicente Bastidas-Elizondo, who is also the choirmaster of assumption school. There is no additional fee for music lessons at assumption, because assumption itself is a choir school. Yet every child who goes to assumption receives a very thorough general education, and certain becomes well educated in the Catholic faith.
Assumption has a special program also in the communication arts. The older children maintain a campus FM radio station, creating their own programs under professional direction; these students can obtain their own amateur radio licenses, and at assumption they are amateur radio club kn6gla, "evergreen service radio," licensed by the federal communications commission as a school club, and affiliated with the American radio relay league. Other communications opportunities are worked into the school's concerts, tours and other performances, so that a student assumption school becomes very comfortable on stage an in public speaking.
Our students are currently rehearsing a "Zarzuela in English" about musical life in early California; this will be performed on tour upon its readiness. The most immediate tour plan is to present our standard concert, "from Gregorian to gospel," at the parish church of St. John Vianney in Sedona, Arizona, during Easter vacation week, 2021. Above all, our children learn that music is a great gift from god, and that all the creative arts are intended to give glory to god and joy to all people. To us, music is a special form of wisdom. And we agree with Beethoven that music is the deepest form of human communications. Your child, at assumption, will develop, through music, a daily sense of what is true, good and beautiful all their lives.
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A Catholic magnet school in the musical and communication arts
