Looking for more photos and videos of our students in performance? Galveston Independent School District Art: Band Choir Fine Arts Dance Ballet Folklorico Theatre Congratulations to all 6 music medalists from state. Every solo we sent to state UIL in Austin yesterday earned a medal! Vocal Students: Band student (marimba solo) Chase Dolfi Teacher of the Year Awards: Three of the eleven Teachers of the Year in GISD are Fine Arts Teachers 27% of the Teachers of the Year are Fine Arts folks! Jessica Antonelli - ECU and Elementary Teacher of the Year Cassilda Rippard - Central Middle School John Allums - Crenshaw School (and this does not count Mr. Nealon's Kempner Award)
Scott Theatre Performs its UIL One-Act Play, Bang, Bang, You’re Dead Friday, May 17th at 7:00 pm Scott gym Bang, Bang, You’re Dead is the story of Josh, a young man who has committed an act of extreme violence on his school and classmates, the night after his crime. Confronted by the deceased students, Josh is forced to confront how he arrived at this place and its far-reaching effects.
Mr. Nealon has been voted Sandy Kempner Teacher of the Year by the Ball High student body. Congratulations on a job well done and on that recognition from your students.
Annual Emily Munson Memorial Art Sale Tuesday May 21, 2013 from 4-6 pm in the commons area at Ball High School (in front of the cafeteria) In conjunction with the student council to remember Emily Munson, who died in an automobile accident shortly after her graduation. Please come and support the students of the Ball High Art program – discover a young artist before the rest of the world does!
Prospective Tornettes: Tornettes Audition Packets are now available in your GISD school's front office. Every Dancer's completed paperwork is due by the first day of Audition Clinic, Monday, May 20th. Dancers must attend the entire clinic - May 20th through May 24th from 4:30-6:30pm in the Ball High Upper Gym. Auditions will occur by assigned shift beginning at 10am on Saturday, May 25th.
Austin Middle School Pre-AP Art Students did very well at the VASE (Visual Arts Scholastic Event) competition:
Out of the 59 artworks they entered, they received:
1 SILVER MEDAL! (Valeria Salinas. on her abstract painting.) 25 SUPERIORS 34EXCELLENTS Way to go Ms. Arcane and Austin Artists!
Ball High Choir receives "Excellent" (2) at UIL Concert competition in Brazosport! Way to go Ball High Choir, Mr. Blake and Ms. Sheaffer!
Scott Band recevies "Excellent" (2) Way to go Scott Band and Ms. Allums! at UIL Concert Competition.
The Annual Ball High Tornette's Spring Show
The Tornette Competition Team went to Starbound Regionals & brought home 5 trophies, scoring "Gold Status" for all routines brought to University of Houston's Cullen Performance Hall on Sunday, March 24th. The Tornettes would like to thank everyone involved in making this a great show & we look forward to seeing you there! Ball High Auditorium April 19 7:00 PM April 20 12 noon
The Ninth Annual Galveston K-12 All-Schools Visual Art Competition SPONSORED BY THE GALVESTON ART LEAGUE, INC. April 4-6: Art show displayed at Galveston Art League, 2117 A Post Office Street. Exhibit Open Thursday - Saturday from 12 p.m.–6 p.m. April 6 (Saturday), 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.: Reception and Awards Presentation for All Participants and Winners Location: Galveston Art League, 2117 A Post Office Street GAL Members, Parents, Students, Teachers, and Administrators welcome 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.: Reception 5:30 p.m.: Awards Presented
FRIDAY April 5 Ball High Theatre 7:00PM MacBeth $5.00 admission The Ball High Theater Arts Department is excited to announce that Ball High’s award winning UIL One Act Play production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth will be presented one final time on the stage of the Ball High Auditorium. After collecting a pile of awards at the Zone and District contests, the students in the company of Macbeth return to Ball High to present their hard work in front of their home community. The performance will occur at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 5th in the BHS Auditorium. Tickets will be $5 and sold at the door. This being a one act production, run time of the play is under 40 minutes. I hope you all can make it out to see our final performance of this classic piece of theater.
Bill Nealon Director of Theater – Ball High School Office: (409)766-5771 Ball High School UIL One Act Play MacBeth District Awards: Mason Aiken, All-Star Cast Mary Grasso, All-Star Cast Damon Gibson, Honorable Mention All-Star Cast Ball High School UIL One Act Play MacBeth Advances to District from Zone B Best Actress- Mary Grasso as Lady MacBeth All Star Cast: Mason Aiken as MacBeth Honorable Mention All-Starr Cast: The Witches Autumn Nolte Macy Jordan Olha Pylypenko Congratulations to Mr. Nealon, Ms. Tally and the cast and crew for a marvelous performance. Can't wait to see what changes and improvements are made by Thursday. District: March 28 (Thursday) at Pearland Dawson. Shows begin at 4PM. Ball High is third and will begin about 6PM. Be there early enough to get in!
Tornettes Win in Houston! The Ball Tornettes Competition Team competed Sunday at the University of Houston Main Campus against Senior Studio Teams in the Large Group Category and received “Gold” Status, trophies and medals for 90 or higher average scores on all five routines brought by the team. We look forward to sharing this great work, and much more with you at Spring Show on April 19th & 20th in the Ball Auditorium. The Tornettes Competition Team is incredibly proud of the performance they put on yesterday and thanks you for your support. See you at Spring Show! WAY TO GO Ms. Griffin and the TORNETTES! Galveston, Texas. (March 18, 2013) – The NAMM Foundation recognizes Galveston ISD for its outstanding commitment to music education with a Best Communities for Music Education designation. GISD joins 307 districts across the country to receive the prestigious distinction this year. In its 14th year, Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) affirms school districts that have demonstrated exceptional efforts toward maintaining music education as part of the schools’ core curriculum. It is important for students to learn music in school because music . . .
Best of luck to the Tornettes Go get 'em Tornettes! Preview night of Ball High School's Theatre UIL One Act Play "Macbeth" - Friday, March 22 @ 7:00 p.m. Free performance. Donations cheerfully accepted to support the BHS Theatre program. Safe journey to the Ball High Band on their trip to San Antonio this Saturday.   Rodeo Art Show Winners - It bears repeating! Here is Emma Barnes and Kyle Columbo with their work on display at Reliant Center for the duration of the Rodeo. High School Best of Show Emma Barnes, untitled work (see above photo) Candi Lepo, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship and College Scholarship High School Gold Medal Winner Kyle Columbo, Frontier Candi Lepo, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship and College Scholarship and for auction Junior High Best of Show Rosa Flores, The Cowboy Fish Casilda Rippard, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship Junior High Gold Medal Winner Kimberly Sanchez, Native Texas Fish Casilda Rippard, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship All four of these will be on display at the Reliant Center during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in the School Art Gallery. See More Ball High Art at the Ball High Art Show at Galveston College The Ball High School Annual Student Art Exhibit will open with a reception on April 11, 2013 from 4:30-6 pm at the Galveston College Fine Arts Gallery (4015 Avenue Q). The gallery is on the third floor between the Mary Moody Northern Building and the Hermes Fitness Center. The show will feature student art work in drawing, painting, photography, ceramics and mixed media. The show will run through April 25th. The Gallery is open daily, Monday through Friday, from 8 am-10pm. The Ball High School Chapter of the National Art Honor Society will install the show and host the opening. GSO sponsors the Lark Ascending Art Contest: A number of GISD students are entered in the art contest sponsored by the Galveston Symphony Orchestra. They had to do a work based on the music from "The Lark Ascending." Come to the concert this weekend to see the winners from throghout Galveston County. Ball High Choir Members did well at UIL Solo and Ensemble - Ball High Choir students competed at UIL Solo and Ensemble this weekend in Angleton. We have Five vocalists going to the state competition in May! Add to this the Band Soloist (Bryce Willey) and three Music Theory students. We will have a total of Nine Ball High Music students at the UIL State Contest in May - Way to Go Ball High. Here are the results for this weekends vocal solo and ensemble competition: Cardona, Xiomara 1 Going to state Caudillo, Bianca 1 Going to state Dodd, Rosemary 1 Going to state Grasso, Mary 1 Going to state Pylpenko, Olha 1 Going to state Blankenship, Siera 1 Cooper, Emily 1 Ponce, Marco 1 Squires, Ashley 1 Masswi, Amena 2 Vargas, Alize 2 Hayward, Ronnie 2 Garza, Alejandra 2 Ball High Students have the Biloxi Blues Students from Ball High are working on understanding the comedy of Neil Simon by reading and performing selections from Biloxi Blues. Ball High School theatre students will present a free community program featuring scenes from Biloxi Blues Free show on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 6pm at The Grand 1894 Opera House
The free community program will also feature the reading of three winning essays, selected from essays written by BHS history classes. In addition, this program will be presented to various student groups in the auditorium at Ball High on Wed.-Thur. Feb. 27-28. Student presentations have been edited for appropriate content viewing. This is an outreach program presented by The Grand 1894 Opera House in partnership with BHS Theatre program under the direction of Mr. William Nealon.
The full-length performance of Biloxi Blues will be presented by Montana Repertory Theatre at The Grand on Saturday March 2, 2013 8pm Half-price tickets are available to students presenting student I.D. This performance is recommended for High School students and adults due to mature content. This presentation is supported in part by an award from Mid-America Arts Alliance, The National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts and foundations, corporations and individuals throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Taiguruma -- Niigata Japan's own special folk art
Debbie Zendt, Dr. Stephen Duncan, Tomoki Koyama, Ishizuka Reiko and Johnston Farrow at the Admin Building with the Taiguruma Art by GISD Students featured on NOAA Flower Banks Sanctuary Website GISD student prepared works relating to the sinking of the USS Hatteras in 1863 which were displayed at the Texas Seaport Museum in conjunction with NOAA's Flower Banks Sanctuary program about the Hatteras. We are pleased to work in conjunction with NOAA in this and plan to continue our partnership in the coming years. Mary Grasso just coming offstage at the TMEA All-State Women's Chorus Concert in San Antonio
MUSIC at UIL Solo and Ensemble Contest
Students from Austin, Ball, Crenshaw, and Scott participated in the Regional Solo and Ensemble contest held in Clute on Saturday. We had some great successes for example Bryce Willey received a Superior on his marimba solo and qualified again for the State Contest in May. Our harpist from Crenshaw (smile for the camera Ms. Jackson) also recevied a Superior rating and was the unabashed hit of the contest - lovely job. Our Austin String players also competed and we are happy to have strings back into the contest (it has been quite a while). 41 Superior medals were won by GISD students! Ball High: Bryce Willey, Marimba Superior, headed to State in May!
The Woodwind judge was pretty picky and gave very few Superiors for the day. We are very proud of Scott and Jared as well as Bryce and Cameron -- all of whom had marched two Mardi Gras parades the night before and came back and marched another parade that evening! Go Ball High TORS! Austin Middle School Crenshaw's Medalists: Crenshaw Excellent Ratings (2’s) Scott Middle School Jacob Allen Second Division: We are proud of all of our Solo and Ensemble students!
Bryce brought the school marimba and had to reassemble it before playing - this allowed him to play on the same instrument that he practices on.
MARDI GRAS continues next Friday!
Ball High Band and color guard pass through the Mardi Gras Arch Catch the Ball High B and at the following parades:
And for a little bit of Music Theory Three Part Rounds Composed by Dr. Duncan's Pre AP Music Theory Class at Ball High School. Each is written by an individual student starting with a blank page of staff paper. The guidelines were that it would be for three woodwinds (flute, oboe and clarinet) and had to start in closed position in a major key. Click the box below to play (Mac users may need to right click and select full screen to get to the controls):
2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Contest Drumroll ……… And the 2D Contest Winners are: High School Best of Show Emma Barnes, untitled work (see above photo) Candi Lepo, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship and College Scholarship High School Gold Medal Winner Kyle Columbo, Frontier Candi Lepo, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship and College Scholarship and for auction Junior High Best of Show Rosa Flores, The Cowboy Fish Casilda Rippard, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship Junior High Gold Medal Winner Kimberly Sanchez, Native Texas Fish Casilda Rippard, teacher Eligible for the Glassell School Scholarship All four of these will be on display at the Reliant Center during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in the School Art Gallery. All participating seniors are eligible for Rodeo College scholarships as well. Congratulations to all the students for their hard work! A HUGE THANK YOU! To Ms. Arcane for putting the show together. The 3D art will head up to Reliant soon to compete with other 3D art from around the state. Ms. Arcane will be taking it up this year so that she can see how that portion of the contest is run. Doc Congratulations to Mary Grasso! It is our great pleasure to announce that Ball High School Choir's own Mary Grasso has been selected for the 2013 TMEA Texas ALL-STATE Women's Chorus. This is a tremendous honor and one well-deserved. Mary, you are marvelous! Congratulations to Ty Ford who placed 5th in Feature Writing at this past Weekend's UIL contest. Way to go Ty and Ms. Godfrey! Thanks to the Ball High AJROTC and three members of the Ball High Band, German, Daniel, and Bryce for participating in the events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Galveston.
Congratulations to the art students whose works were selected for exhibition at the Texas Seaport Museum in conjunction with the Battle of Galveston and NOAA's exhibition on the sinking of the USS Hatteras by the CSS Alabama 150 years ago this week!
San Esteban (Ship wrecked off the coast of Corpus Christi, TX) Hannah West Grade 3 Crenshaw School Ms. Raymond School of Fish Maddison Jordan Grade 3 Early Childhood University Ms. Antonelli CSS Alabama Tyler Culpepper Grade 4 Crenshaw School Ms. Raymond Sea Turtle Arthur Durrell Junior Ball High School Ms. Balshaw Angelfish Emily Menjivar Senior Ball High School Ms. Balshaw Clownfish Amanda Degrasse Sophomore Ball High School Ms. Balshaw Sun Sets on the Battle Chary Ponce Grade 4 Early Childhood University Diver Julissia T. Grade 2 Early Childhood University Ms. Antonelli Sinking of the USS Hatteras Tierra Braziel Grade 4 Early Childhood University Ms. Antonelli The art may be viewed on the Visual Arts Galveston ISD facebook page
Scott Collegiate Academy Look for some of them on GISD TV as well as slide shows of our students and the work they have been doing this semester. www.gisd.org will post the videos as well The All District Musical, the Wedding Singer runs Dec. 13 -15 at the Ball High Auditorium Show begins at 8:00 PM SPECIAL! Thursday Dec. 13 only from 6-8PM the Ball High Art Honor Society will hold its Chili Bowl Supper in the lobby of the Ball High Auditorium. Come by a beautiful handmade ceramic bowl and fill it with chili (prices vary). Dinner and a show! You can't beat that!
Art Opening Friday Dec. 7 12:30 at Crenshaw School
Ball Choir under the direction of Mr. Roderick Blake In additional Choir News, Mary Grasso placed second among al the Altos at this weeks round of All/Region All/State auditions and advances to the next - WAY TO GO MARY! All the way to State! Matisse's Visage du Femme This work is on display for the students at Crenshaw School on the Bolivar Penninsula. The work, a gift of our trustee Ms. Simmons, is a lithograph by Henri Matisse which is displayed along with information on lithography and his biography. The students will get to see an actual work of art by a very important artist, up close and personal. A huge GISD THANK YOU! goes out to Ms. Simmons for her gift. She would like to encourage other art lovers to share their love of art with children.
Crenshaw students: Michael Tovar, Juan Cruz, Zachary Munsch, Tyler Spurgeon, Hailey Cantrell, Fallon Smith, Emily Martinez, Caitlyn Jackson, Diana Cruz, Alexis Holton Ballet Folklorico (the Hispanic Dancers) will be performing at the Ronald McDonald Lights of Love this Friday. The performances start at 6PM THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Nov. 29th Featuring: 6:30 PM at the Palm Beach Pavillion (Tickets available through the Band Boosters) Fire Prevention Poster Contest Winners: Ball High Crenshaw School Morgan Elementary AIM Middle School Oppe
Austin Middle School presented "The First Thanksgiving According to Dwayne" At 3:00 the 7th Grade AMS Theatre students will present Break a leg Austin Middle School Theatre! The ALL-Distric Musical: The WEDDING SINGER December 13/14/15 at Ball High School Auditorium Showtime 8:00PM Cost $5.00 per person Don't miss this one - it will be a lot of fun. In conjunction with the All District Musical opening on December 13, Ball High Choir's own Mary Grasso does it again! She placed #3 of all the Altos at this weekend's round of TMEA auditions. She will be headed to the next round in December. I can't wait to see her make All-State Choir! Go Mary! Go TORs! Ruben Flores from Ball High Art is getting some great attention from the Galveston Daily News on his artwork about Breast Cancer Awareness. Way to go Ruben. You can find the artical in Monday's Daily News. The Steinway in the Choir Room had a lot of work done this summer and just had its fall board re-installed with the refinished Steinway and Sons emblem. Very, very nice. 1950s Steinway Grand Piano. Thanks to Lone Star Pianos for the work!
Ball High Golden Tornado Marching Band Competes tomorrow in UIL Field Marching in Dickinson, TX |
GISD Mission: Excellence in education for all students GISD Fine Arts - Fine Arts for All Students! There is a very nice video posted at the CEDFA homepage about Fine Arts in Texas. http://www.cedfa.org
Search Facebook for Galveston Fine Arts to see these pages.
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Dr. Duncan in two Civil War era uniforms: As Chaplain Sanger of the 42nd Mass Vol Infantry and in Co. M 4th Mo Militia Cavalry |
Dr. Stephen F. Duncan completed his doctoral work in Sacred Music with a minor in electronic composition at the University of Memphis in Tennessee in July of 1991. He holds Master of Music in Music Education, Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Bachelor of Music in Sacred Music degrees from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, OK. He is an adjunct Professor of Music at Galveston College. He continues to offer presentations on Native American and Hundusthani music at music and liturgy conferences across the country and around the world. Dr. Duncan has been selected to serve on the TEKS Review committee for the Fine Arts TEKS by the State Board of Education. Dr. Duncan has several published books, two of which can be found on the library shelves of Harvard and Yale. A Genre in Hindusthani Music (Bhajans) As Used in the Roman Catholic Church A History of the Sacred Musical Life of An Orthodox Church in America |
