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Welcome!
Welcome!
Find a link to my entire handbook here
My name is Ethan Peter - and I am the Choir Director here at Roland-Story School District. I am thrilled to be here with you and your students every year. Roland-Story has been a beacon of excellence in Iowa music educators circles for decades, and I am humbly honored to be chosen to continue the tradition.
As both a teacher and as a former choir member myself, I cannot begin to explain how much it means to a student that you are supporting them in choir. This can be seen in many ways, but most importantly by attending the concerts. I urge you to come and watch our concerts as often as possible. Invite friends, relatives, even people that have never been to a choir concert in their life! It gives our students a wonderful experience to be able to perform for a strong, supportive audience.
“I’ve got a dream too, but it’s about singing and dancing and making people happy.
That’s the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share it with.”
—Kermit the Frog
2024–25 Performance Schedule
2024–25 Performance Schedule
August
First day of School - August 23rd.
September
Opus Prep - Auditions Due Sept 27th
October
Rittersing - Saturday, Oct 5th. Full Day. Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.
Central District MS Clinic - Thurs, Oct 24th. during the school day.
November
Veteran’s Day Assembly - Monday, November 11th. during the school day.
7/8th Grade Fall Concert - Mon, Nov 11th. 7:00 PM
OPUS Honor Choir - Auditioned. Thursday, November 21st. Off-Site
December
5th and 6th Christmas Concert - Monday, December 9th. 6:45 and 7:30 pm.
Senior Citizen’s Dinner - Thursday, December 19th.
February
7th and 8th Band and 7th Choir Concert - Tuesday, March 4th. 7:00 pm.
March
8th Grade Musical - Thursday, March 27th and Friday, March 28th. 7:00 pm.
April
Central District Honor Choir - TBD. Off-Site.
UNI Elementary 4-6th Honor Choir - April 7th, 2025.
May
5th and 6th Spring Concert - Monday, May 12th. 6:45 and 7:30 pm.
7-12th Spring Concert - Tuesday, May 20th. 7:00 pm.
Adventureland Performance - May 2024
*Calendar is subject to change at Mr. Peter’s Discretion, changes will be communicated well in advance.
Our concerts have an admission fee found through the BOUND website.
Our concerts have an admission fee found through the BOUND website.
100% of your admission price for these concerts goes directly to support our music department. Roland-Story uses the revenues from concert admissions to purchase instruments and sheet music; to pay fees for solo contest, honor choirs and honor bands; to tune the pianos; and to hire clinicians and collaborative artists. Thank you for supporting our students in the musical arts!
For my students
For my students
“In the end, the arts make three things possible. First, they develop the mind by giving it opportunities to learn to think in special ways. Second, they make communication possible on matters that will not take the impress of logically constructed language. Poetry, after all, was invented to say what prose can never say. Third, the arts are places and spaces where one can enrich one's life. Such outcomes are not educationally trivial. When taken seriously, the arts have much to teach educators: they could provide the models needed to create schools that genuinely educate.”
— Elliot Eisner, Professor of Art & Education, Stanford University
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