Monthly Highlights
RENT! The Tony and Pulitizer Prize winning rock musical comes to McCallum Fine Arts Academy this summer!
As part of our arts outreach program, we are thrilled to present the 2nd Annual Fine Arts Academy All-City Musical, RENT. With students from around the city involved, it is a chance to see some of the best talent in the area.
Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS and both its physical and emotional complications pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom, and Angel; Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble; Benjamin has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends; and Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general, always behind the camera recording the events but never playing a part.
We will be hosting a talk back session following one of the performances with guests from AIDS Services of Austin and donations will be taken each night to benefit their worthy organziation.
Performances are July 17-19 @ 7pm and July 20th at 2pm. Tickets will be available through our website www.mactheatre.com or www.allcitymusical.com
The McCallum High School Band performed at Carnegie Hall on June 15, 2008.
Their concert program included:
Fanfare for a Festive Day Cichy
Shadow Rituals Markowski
Irish Tune Grainger
Serenade Bourgeois
The Red Machine Graham
Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite King
The concert received rave reviews and 3 standing ovations! This is the fourth performance by the McCallum Band in the world’s most prestigious concert hall.
The 2008 McCallum Band New York Tour was an exciting and memorable one for all involved. Students were able to visit the Empire State Building, attend Tosca, Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Blue Man Group, enjoy a show at the renowned jazz club, Birdland, and sail on a midnight “Celebration Cruise and Dinner Dance” on the “New York Spirit” in the New York Harbor after their Carnegie concert. Students were also able to visit many sights and sounds of New York City including Times Square, Rockefeller Center, NBC Studios, Central Park, China Town, Fifth Avenue, Ground Zero, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art , to name a few.
A big “thank you” to the directors, school administration, band parents, chaperones, and students for making this trip become a reality for the 160 involved. It was truly an “experience of a life time”. The McCallum Band continues to be “a standard of excellence” of which we are all proud.