🎶 Florida State University College of Music presents

The Capital Children’s Choir Spring Concert

📅 Date: Monday, April 28, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Opperman Music Hall, Florida State University

🎟 Admission: Free and open to the public

About the Choir:

The FSU Capital Children’s Choir is a community outreach program serving children from Kindergarten through eighth grade. Founded in 1957 (originally as the Tallahassee Junior Chorus), the program fosters musical growth in a positive, non-competitive environment, providing opportunities for FSU students to assist and mentor younger singers .

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🎼 Program:

Garnet Choir

• Hello – Traditional

• I Hear Thunder – French Folk Song

• Breezes Are Blowing (Rain Chant) – Luiseño folk song (Native American)

• Five Fat Sausages – Chant

• The Flea (Scale Song) – Traditional

• Fingers – Chant

• Tiny Tim – Traditional

• The Dipsy Doodle Dragon – Rocking Horse Players

• Scale Song – HiDino

• Je suis une pizza – Charlotte Diamond

• We are the Dinosaurs – Laurie Berkner

• Birthday Song – Traditional

• Goodbye – Traditional

Gold Choir

• Little Things – Mark Burrows

(Joy Griffin-Willis, piano)

Seminole Choir

• The Wind – B. Wayne Bisbee

Combined Choirs

• Listen to the Rain – Stephen Lawrence

• Lightning! – Greg Gilpin

• I Want Two Wings – African American Spiritual, arr. Earlene Rentz

• Jack & Jill – Katie O’Connor-Ballantyne

• How Can I Keep from Singing – arr. Ginger Littleton

• Yo Vivo Cantando (I Live to Sing) – arr. Jerry Estes

• Sing Your Way Home – Folk Song

(featuring Isaac Roman, flute; Maximilian Levesque, bass) 

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👩‍🏫 Director: Suzanne Rita Byrnes

🎹 Collaborative Pianist: Addy Burwell

🎶 CCC Interns: Francis Gonzalez & Malik Mullino

🧑‍🎓 Field Experience Students: Jordyn Anderson, Kristen Beck, Emma Brock, Will Coey, Addie Elliott, Erin Kane, Samuel Mercier, Addison Peltier, David Pinero, Arden Ruby, Maren Smith, Rebecca Stewart, Wesley Vaden 

✨ A huge thank you to all volunteers, FSU College of Music supporters, and families for making this musical community possible!

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🎵 Next Season Announcement:

The Capital Children’s Choir resumes on Monday, September 8, 2025.

All children are welcome to join — no auditions required!

🌐 More info: Visit music.fsu.edu/capital-childrens-choir.