10/18/24 Fine Arts Department News

Mark your calendars for Friday, November 1: BBQ with the Band and Blue Out football game!

Please join the Highlander Band for a dine-in BBQ dinner from Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse from 5:00-6:30 pm in the HPHS Cafeteria! On the go? Take-out dinner is also available!

Show your support for the Highlander Band and the Scots at the November 1st Blue Out home game against Burleson Centennial with your 2024 Blue Out shirt!

Blue Out shirts and BBQ dinner tickets are available at the link below:

https://hphighlanderband.membershiptoolkit.com/packet/141642838

HPISD is still accepting submissions for the cover of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. Students from all grade levels are encouraged to participate by submitting their artwork for consideration. The winner will have their artwork featured on the cover of the audit report and will be recognized at a board meeting.

Submission Guidelines:

• 2D painting or drawing
• Vertical orientation, 8.5x11 inches
• HPISD Theme: Artwork should reflect or highlight HPISD

To submit your artwork, click here. The deadline to submit your artwork is Friday, Oct. 25. For any questions, please contact the Communications Department at (214) 780-3007 or email avilaa@hpisd.org.

HPHS Theatre is excited to present its fall musical, Anastasia! The musical follows the journey of a young woman, Anya, who suffers from amnesia. Set against the backdrop of post-revolutionary Russia, rumors spread that Anastasia, the last surviving daughter of the Romanov family, may still be alive. Shows are October 24-26 at 7:00 pm and October 27 at 2:00 pm. Tickets will be available online at hpscotstheatre.org and at the door. Anastasia is directed by Brittany Murphy, with choreography by Armoni Adamson and scenic design and technical direction by Joseph Burnam. Come out and support these talented and hardworking students!

HPHS tech theater students are putting in great effort to create set pieces and props for Anastasia: The Musical! Students participate in technical theatre in class with Mr. Burnam, and also make up the crew for all of our HPHS theatre performances.

Congratulations to the Highlander Band for their incredible performance at the US Bands Burleson Regional competition and for earning the following awards in their division:

Best Visual

Best Music

Best Overall Effect

Best Percussion

And 7th place overall! Many top marching bands from the DFW area competed in the US Bands Burleson Regional competition and we are so proud of the Highlander Band for these amazing results!

MAPS's Environmental Architecture class with Ms. Hightower took a “best of Dallas” field trip last week! The below photo is the class in front of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys theater.

The MIS Pop Choir performed for Hyer Elementary 4th grade students on October 10th. The Hyer Huskies loved this performance!

Orchestra classes with Mr. Tannenbaum are working hard! Pictured here are the HPMS beginner violin class and Philharmonic Orchestra. Catch these musicians in action later this month in their fall concerts!

The Armstrong Preschool class is learning to play the glockenspiel. We explored high and low sounds, discussed mallet technique, and played the tonic note while singing a song.

Armstrong Kindergartners are exploring playing the Orff instruments on the steady beat using hands together, playing the rhythm using alternating hands, and performing a glissando as they learn about high and low sounds.

Armstrong Fourth Graders are excited to have begun learning to play the recorder. Students must correctly play songs to earn their Recorder Karate belts. Every student is striving to earn their Recorder Black Belt by the end of the school year.

The MIS Pop Choir performed for Hyer Elementary 4th grade students on October 10th. Our students loved this performance!

UP Panthers are making music! Students are using various mediums to learn musical skills, including playing Orff instruments, playing the Steady Beat game, and using counting cubes to create pictures of higher and lower pitches of known songs.