Our youth choir is named Cantate.  This dynamic 100-member choir is for youth in 6th to 12th grades.  We meet on Sundays evenings in the Sanctuary (Grades 9-12: 5:00 - 6pm; Grades 6-8: 6:30 – 7:30pm, ).  The choir was started in early 2005.  We provide the primary music leadership for the 8:15am Sunday morning worship.  We already have a rich tradition of presenting exciting musicals and taking Summer Concert and Missions Tours.

We have more great plans for 2008-2009!  We welcome all youth to join our choir!

 

Upcoming Musicals

 

 

 

Middle School Musical
Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Friday and Saturday
Oct. 24 and 25
7pm Palmer Hall

 

  

 


All-Youth Musical
Music Man
Fridays & Saturdays,
February 26, 27 & March 6 & 7
7pm Allen Civic Auditorium


 

Cantate Information

 

Upcoming Activities

 

Sunday, August 10            Sing in 8:15 worship service (returning members only)

Wed., August 13                 Dinner at 5:30 for all returning and new members (grades 6-12)                                            followed by an organizational meeting and rehearsal, 6:00 – 7:00. 

Sunday, August 17            Sing in 8:15 worship service (returning members only)
     
Wed., August 20                 Rehearsal, 6:00 – 7:00 for all members (grades 6-12)

Saturday, August 23          Back-to-School Pool Party (time and location TBA)

Sunday, August 24            All Cantate members sing in worship at 9:30 and 11:00
                                             Fall Kick-Off Event, Sunday afternoon
   5:00 – All youth parents meeting and Combined Cantate Rehearsal
   6:00 – Catered Dinner for all youth and parents 
   6:30 – Combined Jr. & Sr. High UMYF and Cantate parent meeting

Tuesday, August 26          Youth Handbell and African Drumming Rehearsals begin

Sunday, August 31            5:00 – 6:00 Combined Cantate Rehearsal
                                          6:00 – 6:30 Dinner for all youth
                                          6:30 - Combined Jr. High & Sr. High UMYF

Tuesday, Sept. 2                Auditions for Schoolhouse Rock, Live! (grades 6-9)

Sunday, Sept. 7                  Regular Sunday rehearsals begin
                                             5:00 – 6:00 High School Cantate Rehearsal
                                             6:00 – 6:30 Dinner
                                             6:30 – 7:30 Middle School Cantate Rehearsal

Friday September 12 – Sunday September 14:  Fall Choir Retreat (at Glen Lake Retreat Center in Glen Rose, TX) we’ll leave the church around 5:00 on Friday and return by 2:00 on Sunday afternoon.

Fri. and Sat., Oct. 24 and 25   Middle School Musical – Schoolhouse Rock, Live!

Sunday, Oct. 26                  Dallas Area Youth Choir Festival

Week of Nov. 3                   Auditions for The Music Man

Sunday, December 7         Festival of Lessons and Carols

 

History

The choir was started in early 2005.  We took our first-ever concert tour in May/June 2005.   In the Fall of 2005, we began to to provide the primary music leadership for the 8:15am Sunday morning worship. In late October 2005, we presented the musical: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  We presented a Broadway Review during 2006.  Our Summer 2006 Concert and Missions Tour was to Washington, DC and New York, NY. In the Spring of 2007 we presented the musical Oklahoma.

Our Summer 2007 Concert and Missions Tour included travel to Chicago. We sang at the 2007 North Texas Annual Conference for the United Methodist Church. In the Fall of 2007, we offered a Musical Revue Variety Show. On February 22, 23, 29 and March 1, 2008, we presented the musical Once Upon a Matress.

In 2008, Middle School members of Cantate completed their first-ever Middle School Summer Missions and
Concert Tour. We had the opportunity to minister to residents of a retirement home in Norman, OK and delighted congregations in Edmond and Tulsa, OK and Hot Springs, AR. In addition to concerts in local churches, we also spent an afternoon at the Oklahoma Regional Food Bank where they processed over 5,000 pounds of food that will provide over 4,000 meals for homeless shelters and food pantries throughout Oklahoma.


2008 Czech Republic Tour

Our Sr. High Cantate members departed in late June 2008 for the Czech Republic. A total of 29 youth and 8 adults participated in the tour. Concerts were presented in the towns of Litomerice, Tachov, Karlovy Vary, Plzen, Prague and Sedlcany. The fledgling UMC congregations in the Czech Republic are desperately in need of the ministry that Cantate can provide. Christians in the Czech Republic have a strong sense of isolation and need to feel that they are a part of the worldwide Christian community.

 

 


Fall 2005 -Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
 

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