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Planting seeds with healthy, strong mentoring and opportunity for growth.
Entering its 15th year, YouthCUE's Baylor Festival
is hosted in partnership with Baylor's Center for Christian Music Studies, which was founded at Baylor University with the intent to provide leadership in all aspects of Christian music within today's society. More Info
Quick Facts
Date & Time
Begin: February 21, 2020 – 6:00pm
End: February 23, 2020 – 4:00pm
Location
Baylor University
Jones Concert Hall
Cost
$96 per participant before October 15
$104 per participant after October 15
What I love about YouthCUE
Reflections on National Honor Choir
“YouthCUE has been an awesome experience because of all the teamwork…it’s united all of us and helped us grow stronger together as well as with our faith in God.
Singing all the songs and seeing all the smiles on peoples’ faces…just seeing everybody from different cultures is also an awesome thing YouthCUE has shown me.”
“My favorite thing about YouthCUE is the joy you get when you get to sing at the beautiful churches and for the elderly.
YouthCUE (National Honor Choir) gives you the music with high expectations you’ll learn it yourself. I’m a hard worker, but this experience taught me I have to work even harder to be at that level.”
“YouthCUE has taught me a lot of things, especially things that I can use in college, such as the value of teamwork, leadership, and the ability to interact with different people.
Blending our sound, listening to one another and balancing out all of the different parts is definitely a teamwork activity.”
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Centrally-located in the Heart of Texas at Baylor University in Waco, the YouthCUE Baylor Festival is a fantastic regional event for choirs located in the DFW, San Antonio and Houston areas.
Jones Concert Hall in the McCrary Music Building serves as our rehearsal and concert venue. Jones Concert Hall is a 1,000-seat auditorium, featuring a 92-rank Petty-Madden pipe organ. The Festival is accompanied by members of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra.
Entering its 15th year, YouthCUE’s Baylor Festival is hosted in partnership with Baylor’s School of Church Music, under the direction of Dr. Randall Bradley, the Ben H. Williams Professor of Church Music and Director of the Center for Christian Music Studies. The Center for Christian Music Studies was founded at Baylor University with the intent to provide leadership in all aspects of Christian music within today’s society. As we continually strive to become a preeminent Christian music center worldwide, we foster the growth and effectiveness of efforts to utilize Christian music to its God-given potential.
| **Early-Bird Participation Fee (Before October 15) |
$96 per participant |
| Participation Fee (After October 15) | $104 per participant |
Participants include directors, singers, and adult chaperones. A 50% deposit of your total participation fee is due upon registration. This deposit secures your choir’s spot at the Festival and is non-refundable. See Festival Terms & Conditions for more information.
**NOTE: To take advantage of the Early-Bird offer, you must pay the remaining balance on your account prior to October 15.
What’s included?
- All Festival activities
- Grand Concert with Baylor Symphony Orchestra
- Festival t-shirt
- Professionally-produced video of the Grand Concert, provided in downloadable format
- (2) lunches in Penland Hall
- Snacks and water at designated break times
- Dr. Pepper Floats on Saturday
- Mini-concert by the Baylor Men’s Choir
What’s NOT included?
- Breakfasts and dinners
- Transportation
- Lodging
- Festival repertoire octavos
| Friday, February 21, 2020 | |
| 6:00pm | Registration begins in McCrary Music Building lobby |
| 7:00pm | Festival Assembly in Jones Hall |
| 7:20pm | Section Rehearsals |
| 8:35pm | Break w/ snacks provided by YouthCUE |
| 8:55pm | Mass Rehearsal 1 in Jones Hall |
| 8:56pm | All directors and counselors meet with YouthCUE staff in Meadows |
| 10:15pm | End – Depart for lodging places |
| Saturday, February 22, 2020 | |
| 9:00am | Mass Rehearsal 2 |
| 10:10am | Transition break |
| 10:15am | Section Rehearsals |
| 11:30am | Lunch in Penland Hall provided by YouthCUE |
| 12:55pm | Mass Rehearsal 3 |
| 2:00pm | Stretch break |
| 2:30pm | BU mini-concert in Jones Hall |
| 3:15pm | Mass Rehearsal 4 |
| 4:15pm | Break w/ Dr. Pepper floats |
| 4:45pm | Mass Rehearsal 5 w/ Baylor Symphony |
| 6:15pm | End for the day |
| Sunday, February 23, 2020 | |
| 10:00am | Warm-up for morning worship |
| 10:45am | Places for morning worship |
| 11:00am | Morning worship service |
| 12:15pm | Lunch at Penland Hall provided by YouthCUE |
| 1:50pm | Warm-up for Concert in Jones Hall |
| 2:20pm | Stretch break |
| 3:15pm | Festival Grand Concert |
| 4:15pm | End |
All Festival repertoire is to be learned and memorized prior to the beginning of the Festival. Students will be allowed to use their music for the first few rehearsals before they are asked to put it away and sing from memory. To help students learn the music, a practice recording will be posted here closer to the Festival date.
| Anthem | Composer | Voicing | Publisher | Catalog Number |
| Sing to the Lord a New Song | Haydn/Hopson | SATB | Morningstar | MSM-2503-A |
| The Lord’s Prayer | Harlan | SATB | Harold Flammer | HL.35022813 |
| Sing and Be Not Silent | McDonald | SATB | Word Music | WD.080689335785 |
| Sing Praises to God | Goeller | SATB | Dan Goeller Music | CHO-3025 |
| Pilgrim Song | Murphy | SATB | Oxford University Press | OU.9780193385573 |
| Open Thou Mine Eyes | Harlan | SATB | Shawnee Press | HL.35016336 |
| Sometimes I Hear God’s Music | Martin | SATB | Shawnee Press | HL.35020872 |
| For the Beauty of the Earth | Rutter | SA | Oxford University Press | OU.9780193415133 |
| I Would Be True | Patterson | TTBB | Carl Fischer | CF.CM9398 |
| Oye Mi Clamor, Senor (Spanish) | Goeller | SATB | Dan Goeller Music | CHO-4020 |
| I Sing the Mighty Power of God | Sterling | SATB | Robert Sterling Music | n/a |
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