HHS Friends of the Arts

The May meeting has been rescheduled: Tuesday, May 15th at 7:00 PM at 400 East restaurant.
2012 Senior Arts Night Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:00 Art Exhibit Reception, William H. Lutz Gallery, Harwich Port 7:00 Recital, Pilgrim Congregational Church, Harwich Port

Students visit Globe Scholastic Art Awards and Institute of Contemporary Art
	HHS Senior, Abby Hanus, with one of her award winning pieces.
On April 11, HHS students visited the State Transportation Building in Boston to view the 2012 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Competition Exhibit. They also visited the Institute of Contemporary Art. Abby Hanus received Gold Key and Silver Key Awards which were on display as well as an Honorable Mention. Work will continue to be on display through April 20. Four other HHS students also received Honorable Mentions. See photos below. At the February HHSFOTA meeting, it was voted to donate $400 to help defray costs of the student trip.

"How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"

Director: Deb Donovan

Musical Director: Rosemarie Richard

Choreographer: Joe Burke

March 28 - March 31, 2012

View a Dress Reherasal photo album here courtesy of Clemence Photography

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING is a satire of big business and all it holds sacred. It follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive, tackling such familiar but potent dangers as the aggressively compliant "company man," the boss' whiny, nepotistic nephew, the office party, backstabbing co-workers, caffeine addiction and, of course, true love.

Several of the participating students saw the show last spring on Broadway starring Daniel Radcliff while on the Fine and Performing Arts New York City Arts Trip.

Kate Heemsoth, HHS Class of 2007, 2011 Theater Graduate of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, returned to assist in the production.

Harwich High School Art Students exhibit at the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable


Austin Leclair - Mixed Media - "Hermit"

Payton Warner - First Place monoprint - "Undeclared"

Caitlyn Hoban - Second Place - Photo Collage - "Portrait"

Heidi Friedel - Honorable Mention - Mixed Media - "Jack"

Mary Jane Pulley - Photograph - "Fence"

Abby Hanus winner of the
Cape Cod Art Association Scholarship

Tiffany Harris - Drawing- "Rose"

Jordan DiLaurio - Drawing -
"Still Life"

Jessica Wilson - Block Print -
"Dove Love"

Bri Meehan - Mixed Media - "Untitled"

MARCH MEETING:
	You are invited to join our fun group of parents, teachers and friends. We always welcome new faces. Our next meeting is Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the 400 East Restaurant in East Harwich. Come early for dinner!

"All Arts Day"
celebrating the Fine and Performing Arts of the Harwich Public Schools
with guests from the Chatham Public Schools

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Harwich Community Center

Pops Concert- MUSIC MADE FAMOUS by FRANK SINATRA... March 6, 2012

Photos courtesy of Clemence Photography
View the photo gallery here.
Listen to and download the music here .
Read facts about Sinatra here.

HHS Students Receive Top Honors in the 2012 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Competition

The Boston Globe Scholastic Art competition received 14,000 entries this year from students throughout Massachusetts in grades 7 - 12. The following HHS students received awards.

(Gold and Silver Key Award work will be on display at the State Transportation Building in Boston,
February 13 through April 20. The award ceremony was held March 11 at the John Hancock Hall in Boston.

At the February HHSFOTA meeting, it was voted to donate $400 to help defray costs of students attending the exhibit and an art museum on April 8.)

Abby Hanus TRIKE Gold Key - Print
Abby Hanus PHONES Silver Key- Photo
Abby Hanus TO WORK Honorable Mention - Photo
Marlee Galloway Honorable Mention - Painting
Olivia Howland Honorable Mention - Print
Tiffany Harris Honorable Mention - Painting
Bri Meehan Honorable Mention - Sculpture

2012 All Cape & Islands Music Festival
On February 2nd , 3rd and 4th, twenty-eight Harwich High School musicians (see below) participated in the *51 st Annual Cape and Islands Music Festival* at Barnstable High School. Approximately 300 students from Cape & Islands high schools successfully auditioned in mid-November for a spot in one of four ensembles: Concert Band, Orchestra, Mixed Choir or Treble (Women's) Choir. Harwich High School was represented in the Concert Band as well as both choral ensembles. The Treble Choir, consisting of three dozen women, was conducted by the recently retired Mashpee choral director and had the sound of a group three times its size with a varied and beautiful program.
The Mixed Choir was managed by Harwich High School's Music Director, Rose Richard, who secured conductor Greg Beardsell. Greg is the Associate Musical Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain as well as the Musical Director of Ireland's Youth Choir. The group started with a rousing arrangement of Curtis Mayfield's “People Get Ready”. The rest of the program built up to an ending with the conductor's arrangement of Bobby McFerrin's Circlesong 6 .	The Concert Band performance included a setting of Nessun Dorma performed with a recording of Pavarotti and a piece entitled Inchon, a tribute to a Korean War soldier fighting in the battle of Inchon which was a turning point in the Korean War. The piece made the audience feel they were in the midst of the war with performers in the audience simulating helicopters and gunfire on percussion instruments.

Greg Beardsell conducting the Mixed Choir in Bobby McFerrin's Circlesong 6	Concert Band performing Inchon
HHSFOTA provided bus transportation funding for students to attend both the auditions and the actual festival.

Student art work displayed in the High School lobby:

The Guild of Harwich Artists exhibited at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod February 15-26. The Guild artists have been frequent visitors to HHS art classes and were the artists with whom students painted plein air last spring for the

"Painting the Town with Charles D. Cahoon" project in cooperation with the Harwich Historical Society.