Delta High School Reunion Choir

Don’t miss the Desert Echo concert next Week. 29 th. Weeks, months of hard work culminating in a great final concert. Something for everyone. Please consider coming.

If you love good choral music and have friends that do as well, come to the Desert Echo choir concert at the Delta High Auditorium this Saturday night at 7:00 PM.

The Desert Echo choir will be performing April 30 at 7:00 PM at the Delta High School auditorium. You’ll love the music and the choir will dazzle and amaze. Admission is a can of food for the UTAH FOOD BANK. Come see the Folks at their best. Dave W**KIER, conducting.

Don’t miss the upcoming concert of DESERT ECHO, Delta’s community choir. We have an outstanding ensemble featuring some great choral works. It has been my great pleasure to conduct this ensemble. They work so hard and are improving each rehearsal. I’m sure we have songs that will touch your heart. Don’t miss it!!!!

DESERT ECHO SPRING CONCERT
DELTA HIGH AUDITORIUM
APRIL 30, 2022
7:00 PM

DAVE W**KIER

Got a new job recently. Gonna be the director of the DESERT ECHO in Delta. Looking forward to seeing all of my friends again and making great songs come to life. If you or anyone you know is interested in becoming a member please PM me to talk about it. We will
Meet Wednesday night at 7:00 PM at the DHS choir room. Or you can contact Lance Atkinson. He’s the president. Happy Holidays and especially MERRY CHRISTMAS. Dave Wankier

What were you doing thirty years ago? DHS choir was getting their Europe on. Those who look back at the trip to Normandy, I'm sure, do so with tears in their eyes. It was a highlight in my life and one of my choicest memories. I'm still saddened when I think of those who had to miss it. I always loved you anyway and wish you could have been there. Everytime I see stuff on the TV, about France, England and everything, all of those memories come back. I loved getting ready, making money, preparing passport photos, trying for sponsors, etc.
I can't believe that you are all thirty years older, I'm still young, at heart. All the best.

All the choirs here in LV are right in the middle of festival and it brings back so many great memories. Sometimes we sang well and sometimes we were out of the building great. Remember the judges after WALKIN ON THE GREEN GRASS? Just remember it never was about the score. I always wanted to be our best and if that meant we were the best, so be it. I hope when I meet some of the great masters in the next life, that I can look them in the eye and feel like they approved. Keep singing and playing. That's another thing Delta is known for, great piano kids. Last chance to get tickets for the SLC concert May 25. Text me your PO address. LOVE YOU ALL but then you already knew that.

EVER wonder why we need music in our schools? The arts (in my case, music) have a lot of functions. They draw kids that would be lost otherwise and let them shine. All activities are good if they keep the kids from doing bad things. Coach Porter said (that) the best way to keep your team in line was to make them so tired when they got home that all they wanted was a meal and a bed. We sometimes had very late rehearsals with kids having to drive home late to the far reaches of the universe only to get up super early to get back to school the next day. They did this because of their love for the music and each other and did so without a whimper. Maybe they should have been that dedicated to their other studies as well, but they were the ones who went on to be Sterling Scholars, studentbody leaders, etc. Music was the driving force that kept them at it through it all. May we never lose our force and let music be just another class. We can't all be great singers or athletes but we can all devote a part of our life to making a choir or a musical better. Miss you guys. Sad to see you all grow up. Great to see you all grow up.. MR W**KIER

Christmas concerts come and gone. Hope you had a great holiday. I have to say the best songs still are about yhe Savior. What's your favorite? Hard for me to pick just one, but here's a few. In the Bleak Midwinter by Robert Young. O Holy Night by John Leavitt. Hallelujah by George Handel. Maybe the whole Messiah. What's yours? I can't help reflect on my years as a choir teacher and feel that the greatness of the music is the overarching reason for our singing. My favorite song is the one I'm singing so I have to think that the messages I get from the music is what has changed me and formed much of my testimony of the Gospel. I hated the years when I had to undersell the significance of the texts . The great composers understood how the lyrics should match the phrase and they speak to me. I always wanted for my choir members to understand what the composer thought about the text. Most of the time the lyrics are great poetry and the poems have a certain line or phrase that sums up the whole point of the song. When it comes to me, I feel something special. Hope you do as well. Keep singing. W**K

Its two in the morning and I can't sleep. Just reading about all the good people I know and feeling good that I do. You folks are doing some great things and you are teaching your kids to do the same. I am so proud to know you. This is the time of year when we get baseball and softball and I get to see my former players and their kids doing so well. I love hearing about your kids singing in All-state and honor groups, local programs and productions etc. Keep it up and keep posting. Thanks for letting me in on your lives. Oh, and sorry for the poor composition skills, Ron

It's festival time and it brings me back. I guess I never felt the same way about festival as other directors. It was never about the trophy or the rating but rather about the experience. Instead of cutting the choir back to only include the best voices, I always kept more than the performing limit so more could have the experience. I felt like that was my mission in life...to include rather than compete. I used to say I wanted to 0do something that didn't resemble a sports event. Don't get me wrong, we tried as hard as anyone, and we were very successful, but the score wasn't the only thing we worked for. I felt like the rating was for me not the students and when they went to state it was because we all pulled together. Probably my greatest memories are of students who came the farthest and worked the hardest. Instead of constantly trying to be the best I focused on being our best. Thanks for the great memories and now go and make me proud.

Share your thoughts on All-star Choir. So many great memories.