Uvalde CISD Choirs

27/04/2026

Important Upcoming Dates related to the "Carry the Light" concert:
1.Monday April 27, 4:10-5:30 pm: Mandatory Combined Junior/Senior High rehearsal, UHS Choir Room. 6th graders will be released at 4:45 pm.
2. Monday May 4, 4:10-5:15 pm : Mandatory Combined Junior/Senior High rehearsal with Accompanist Jason Schlicting, UHS Choir Room. 6th graders released at 5:00 pm.
3. Dress Rehearsal: Monday May 18, 4:15-5:30 pm, Harrell Auditorium Stage
4. Dinner Break, Monday May 18, 5:30-6:40 pm. Pizza, beverages and cookies provided by the Uvalde CISD Choir boosters in the UHS Choir Room.
5. "Carry the Light" Concert, Monday May 18, 7:00-7:45 pm, Harrell Auditorium
We look forward to seeing you all there!

26/04/2026

Announcing our final concert of the 2025-26 school year, taking place on May 18 at the Uvalde High School Harrell Auditorium. "Carry the Light" is dedicated to the memory of the 21 souls lost May 22, 2022 at Robb Elementary, the many souls lost in the Texas Hill Country flooding on July 4, 2025, and all of those who have lost their fight with cancer. Join us for an evening of uplifting and healing music that will inspire you to continue "carrying the light".

22/04/2026

Here is the QR code for our Schoolfunder Choir Spring Fundraiser, for those that prefer to scan this to get to their website. Please consider donating generously as we are only about 1/3 of the way to our goal of $2500. The fundraiser will run up until just before our Spring Concert on May 18. Stay tuned for further information on that Concert to follow tomorrow!

22/04/2026

Our spring fundraiser is now live, using the Schoolfunder platform! Please consider donating to support the Choir Program for the remainder of this year (including a possible reward trip if we earn enough) as well as next year! Our goal is $2500. If you prefer a QR code, I will add a separate post with that shortly. For now, here is the direct link:

Hello! I'm raising funds for Uvalde Choir Fundraiser 2026 and would love your support. You can click here to make your donation - thank you!

15/04/2026

Good afternoon: After several delays, Print Haus finally has our MJH Choir T-shirts available for order on their website, at the following link:

https://printhausstore.square.site/product/mjh-choir/PUNPWZZAE2JDW5FO5BDH3APM?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

The front design is a colorful one made by 8th grader Angelica Mendoza; on the back are listed the names of the kids in the various classes (6th grade versus the 7th/8th grade Varsity class). The actual shirt color will be UCISD maroon instead of black, however.

I would like the students to be wearing these as a uniform for the spring concert if possible though we need everyone's participation to make this a reality. To help with this, the student price is slightly lower than the price for parents (see next paragraph). It is as low as we could talk Print Haus into making it.

This sale is also a partial fundraiser for the MJH Choirs---information on a separate fundraiser will follow in an announcement tomorrow. As such, the price for parents/relatives, if you wish to buy one or more to support your child and the choir as a whole, it is offered at the same price the theater students have been paying for their shirts (19.99).

Please email any questions you have about the shirts. The window for ordering is currently scheduled to close on May 1st.

---Mr. Tilley

06/04/2026

Greetings and Happy Easter, students and parents. Even though I am still not 100% recovered from the cold that hit me hard and fast Thursday morning, I will be back in school tomorrow. The afterschool junior high rehearsal originally scheduled for March 30 had been rescheduled to tomorrow, April 6, and I still plan to try and hold this rehearsal, though It will have a different structure than previous afterschool rehearsals due to the nature of this concert. Here is the planned schedule:

4:10-4:35. All students, rehearsing Circle of Life 6th graders will be dismissed at 4:35 pm.

4:35-5:10. 7th and 8th grade only on their pieces

Please make a note of it.

Mr. Tilley

17/03/2026

Reminder! Our rescheduled Spirituals concert will be held tomorrow, March 17, 2026 at 6:30 pm in the Harrell Auditorium on the Uvalde High School campus! Stop by for our 45 minute concert on the tradition of African-American Spirituals and then go celebrate a different tradition for St. Patricks Day!

18/02/2026

Schedule Related to Next Week's Concert:

Good evening!

This announcement contains important information relating to our scheduled February 26 concert (which has been on the choir calendar since early Fall) being held in association with February being Black History Month. This relatively short (~35-40 minutes) concert will also serve as an outreach concert to the greater Uvalde community and will be held at the El Progreso Library located just off of West Main Street. We are pleased to be joined this concert by well-known Uvalde pianist and promoter Toni Hull as accompanist and our own theatre teacher, Krystle Wells, as featured soloist.

As was the case for the period around the Veteran's Day performance, we have a very full rehearsal and performance schedule for next week. This schedule, including dates, times and locations, follows:

Tuesday, February 24: Combined Junior High/Senior High rehearsal , UHS Choir Room, 4:10-5:15pm

Wednesday, February 25: Dress Rehearsal, El Progreso Library, 5:00-6:15 pm

Thursday, February 26: Concert, El Progreso Library, 6:30pm start with student call time either 5:45 or 6:00 pm (This will be decided based on how the Dress Rehearsal goes. If it goes well, it will be a 6:00 pm call time, otherwise 5:45 pm.

As has been the case throughout the year, all of the above events carry summative grades. We simply cannot perform in public if we have missed students haphazardly through the final rehearsal push. All of these dates have been, in one form or another, on our calendar since very early in the year. As per the contract/syllabus distributed at the start of the year (and still available here on this page), requests for excused absences (as defined in that document) should have already been forwarded to me by your students. In case there is a serious conflict that has not been brought to my attention, please do so as soon as possible via email ([email protected]).

Concert dress will be less formal than for the Winter/Christmas concert. Acceptable attire includes maroon shirts (of any type as long as they either have school logos/lettering or are plain maroon), presentable jeans (ABSOLUTELY no holes in the jeans) and presentable closed-toe shoes or sneakers (no Crocs, no sandals or other open-toe shoes permitted).

As was the case for the Winter/Christmas concert, not all students will perform all pieces but all WILL perform the first three pieces and the finale with Ms. Wells, so students will not be permitted to leave the concert venue early. Thank you.

18/02/2026

Please join us for our next short (35-40 min) concert at 6:30 pm February 26, given in association with February being Black History Month! All music presented in the concert consists of African-American spirituals. We are pleased to partner with the El Progreso library, Ms. Toni Hull and Ms. Krystle Wells for this concert!

26/01/2026

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Good Monday afternoon:

Because school will be open tomorrow, January 27, and because temperatures by dismissal time should be around 46-47 degrees, the afterschool rehearsal for all choir students (Junior High and Senior High) will take place as scheduled tomorrow from 4:10-5:15 in the UHS Choir Room. This is an important rehearsal in the preparation for the late February concert that should not be missed; as such, attendance at this rehearsal will carry a participation grade as previously announced to the students.

Thank you.

---Mr. Tilley

08/12/2025

Important Dates Coming Up: Please make a note of them!

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 4:10-5:10 pm: JOINT REHEARSAL BETWEEN JUNIOR HIGH AND SENIOR HIGH CHOIRS, UHS Choir Room

WEDNESDAY DEC. 10 & FRIDAY DEC. 12, 4:10-5:30 PM: WOMEN'S CHAMBER ENSEMBLE REHEARSALS for "The Snow"

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15: DRESS REHEARSAL AND WINTER CONCERT, 4:15-8:00 pm, UHS Auditorium:

MANDATORY DRESS REHEARSAL from 4:15 to approximately 5:30.
5:30 pm:
6:30 pm: Jazz Combo concert begins, Auditorium
6:45 PM: CALL TIME FOR CHOIR
7:00 pm: CHOIR PORTION OF THE CONCERT. Concert should end between 7:45 and 8:00 pm.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1:10-1:35 pm: PERFORM AT FIRST STATE BANK HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE, Nopal St.branch. We will use District Transportation for this event and leave from the Junior High.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 8:45-9:30 am: CAROLING BY THE JUNIOR HIGH CHOIRS FOR TEACHERS AND STAFF AT LEGACY ELEMENTARY. We will depart from Morales Junior High around 8:50 am.