Music
In recent years West Potomac has been a recipient of the Virginia Honor Band award from the Virginia Band and Orchestra Director's Association for superior ratings in concert band and marching band. Also the West Potomac Symphonic Winds, directed by Steve Rice, attended the Bands of America event in Indianapolis in March 2010, accompanied by the West Potomac Percussion Ensemble directed by Adam Foreman.
West Potomac's choral department has also blossomed since Ernest Johnson joined the faculty. He has created the two elite choral programs, Bella Voce and Colonial Singers (known as the Chamber Singers as of fall 2011), and has generated a buzz with his talented reach to renew interest in choral programs across the student body. His two elite choirs often do outreach performances for retirement homes, adult daycare centers, various churches, and even the Blair House. He has crafted a wonderful mixed chorus program filled with junior and senior boys and girls, and has created two brand new freshmen and sophomore choral groups for the 2011-2012 school year. The choral groups are featured many times throughout the year including fall and winter concerts, special events and volunteer performances in the community. Each year, West Potomac choirs participate in a competitive event known as Choral festival with the rank of superior performance often awarded. At the end of the school year, the "Spring Show" is a major choral event featuring popular music in a feel good song and dance show.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“When in our music God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried Alleluia!”
—Frederick Pratt Green (b. 1903)
“In benevolent natures the impulse to pity is so sudden, that like instruments of music which obey the touch ... you would think the will was scarce concerned, and that the mind was altogether passive in the sympathy which her own goodness has excited. The truth is,—the soul is [so] ... wholly engrossed by the object of pity, that she does not ... take leisure to examine the principles upon which she acts.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)