Kaleidoscope Girls Chorus
Service, Singing and Sisterhood

PHILOSOPHY
The Kaleidoscope Girls Chorus (KGC) was formed to provide a place for girls to develop their musical creativity in a setting that positively acknowledges where they are developmentally. It supports quality relationships with other girls, giving all of them an opportunity to share their musical gifts in service to the community.Turn a kaleidoscope in the light, and you will find a beauty that is ever evolving, even surprising. Though the shapes can be symmetrical, they change with each turn. In many ways it mirrors the junior high period of girls’ adolescence. Like a kaleidoscope, these girls’ lives are turned and shaped by emotions and culture, by parents and friends, as they begin to build their individual identities. KGC recognizes how important this process is, and supports the girls as they mature.

MUSIC REPERTOIRE
Girls will develop a strong foundation in harmony by singing rounds, canons, catches, part songs and other fun vocal activities. Attention will be given to sight-singing, aural awareness, music history and music theory as well as performance skills.  Pieces will include a variety of ethnic music in different genres. When possible, the chorus will use the various talents of its members, musical and otherwise, to enhance the KGC experience.  While the rehearsals will provide quality choral instruction, there will also be time for fun and fostering friendships.

Program Details

• Students enroll for a 15-week semester.
• Rehearsals are on Mondays, August 22-December 8, except there is no rehearsal on Labor Day, September 5.
• Rehearsals are held 6-7:15 p.m. at the Music Clubhouse, 2201 W. 25th Street, Suite M (behind Office Depot).
• Tuition for the semester is $160 plus a $35 non-refundable materials fee.
• Fees include a Kaleidoscope Girls Chorus T-shirt.
• Each semester the Chorus performs in two community service venues agreed upon by members.
• Chorus members decide together the dress requirements for performances.
• The Music Clubhouse occasionally previews books, websites and other supportive materials for parenting adolescent girls. Casual parenting discussion groups may be offered depending on interest.

CHORUS STAFF
Tina Towle
Director
Kaleidoscope Girls Chorus

Janet Hart Johnson
Director
The Music Clubhouse
Janet Hart Johnson received her Master of Music in piano performance and pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She has an undergraduate degree in piano performance. Ms. Johnson is a Licensed Kindermusik Educator, is active in a number of professional music organizations and is a clinician for the Frances Clark Piano Library. She served on the faculty of Oklahoma Baptist University for six years, teaching private and class piano and piano pedagogy. In 1995 she founded what became The Music Clubhouse, now enrolling  over 150 students in Kindermusik, private piano and Piano Detectives, a beginning piano experience.