Shen-Val-Lore The Student Voice of Shenandoah Valley Academy
Shenandoah Valley Academy
December 10, 2021
Volume 91, Edition 2
Upcoming Events MARCH 6
End of 3rd Term
8
Sunday School
11-23
Argentina Music/Mission Tour
12-23
Spring Break
APRIL 2 2-4
Potomac Elementary School Music Festival
5
ACT / Junior-Senior Banquet
Ring Fest
CALLA MORGAN
The music scene at SVA this year has been anything but normal. Fortunately, the year got off to a great start with the Ohio RingFest and SVA Bell Choir tour. Not only was this tour the first one of the year, but it was also the first tour any music group had gone on in two years due to the COVID pandemic. As the kids boarded the bus at 7:00 AM, excitement and anticipation filled the air. It was a five-hour drive to Toledo, Ohio, with a full schedule waiting for them upon their arrival. Rehearsals consisted of seven hours of practice with the occasional 15-minute break. The music and practices were
organized and facilitated by two clinicians, Barbara Meinke and Michael J. Glasgow. Over the course of the festival, coaching sessions were offered by the two clinicians to the students to participate in conducting and bell-ringing technique workshops. Along with the coaching sessions, the students also had the opportunity to participate in a special select bell choir. In this select choir, two students from each of the 14 different participating bell choirs are chosen by their directors to play a more advanced piece to be performed in the concert. Mr. Biaggi chose Senior Cate Schoonard and Junior
Michael White for the over their own love for select bell choir. handbells. One highlight of the trip was stopping to RingFest lasted for two see the New River Gorge days. The bell choir spent Bridge in West Virginia. the rest of the trip per- At the bridge, students forming at Worthington were able to walk down (Ohio) Church and Park- and see all the beautiful ersburg (West Virginia) fall scenery and meditate SDA Church on Sabath, on all the wonderful gifts and the Charleston (West God had given them on Virginia) Assembly of that trip. It was amazing God on Sunday morning. to see how many people Throughout the duration were truly blessed by the of the tour, the students students’ performancfound ways to bond with es at each church. It was each other. They played also amazing to see how games on the bus rides many people would go out and had deep philosoph- of their way to bless the ical conversations about students as well, whether various aspects of life it was providing food, or and even of the value of providing a place to rest life itself. They also con- for a few moments. On this nected with each other trip, SVA’s bell choir truly
AU Visit
6-10
discovered the meaning of the verse Luke 6:38 that reads, “Give, and it shall 13 be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and 16 running over.”
17-18
Week of Prayer Sophmore Field Trip Senior Tree Planting Alumni Weekend
19
School Picnic
22-26
Homeleave
30
US History Tour
MAY 1-4
US History Tour
5
AP Calculus Exam
6
AP English Exam
8ROK International Vespers 9 14-15
Final Music Concerts Senior Exams
15
Baptisms
16
Best of Everything
17-20
Senior Class Trip
19-20
Final Exams
3 Barn Party
22
Consecration
4 Girls’ Volleyball Tournament
23
Baccalaureate / Class Night
24
Class Night
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Ring Fest 2 NACA Soccer Tournament
5 SA Banquet
7 ROK Vespers