Dancing Through Life

It's that time of year again! Clear your calendars for Friday, November 13 and Saturday, November 14. The UT Longhorn Singers will be presenting their 2009 fall show, "Dancing Through Life," featuring selections from Hairspray, The Beatles, Natasha Bedingfield, and Wicked. Prepare yourself for a spectacular showcase of talent as UT's official show choir sings, dances, and performs Broadway and contemporary songs from some of music's biggest names.

Shows are at 7:30 pm on both days in the McCollough Theatre on the UT campus. Tickets are $10 at the door. We will also be selling show t-shirts, so be excited!

Come see our Fall 2009 NUGIs in their LHS debut and support your favorite OLGIs as they return to the stage. We've been working hard and are expecting to have a great show! Hope to see you all there!

Kidd Kraddick in the Morning!

Longhorn Singers was featured on the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning show this morning!

We are currently in Dallas for our annual Texas/OU Weekend tour. We stopped by the studio and got some sweet air time! For now, you can check us out on their website at www.kiddlive.com . They are going to email us the audio files, so I'll see if I can post them soon!

Longhorn Singers on Sports Illustrated!

Check out the Longhorn Singers on Sports Illustrated!

www.si.com/75heismantour

Click Austin on the map and go watch the video!

Fall 2009 NUGIs

After many auditions and hard decisions, we finally have our NUGI's. Thanks to everyone who auditioned this semester, we saw a lot of really talented students!

Congratulations to the newest members of the

University of Texas Longhorn Singers:

Alyssa Barnes

Elizabeth Bernabe

Celeste Castillo

Joseph Crowley

Liz Deily

Kyra Kim

Chris Lanier

Dean Leake

Anjali Nambiar

Andrew Nguyen

David Nguyen

Andrew Suen

Michael Swan

Welcome to the family! :)

Luis Miguel Makes Us Proud

Hello all! This blog is going to be used for a number of reasons. We will post information about auditions, shows, social gatherings and other sorts of information like that, but it will also be used to celebrate our members. Longhorn Singers have all sorts of talents outside of our choir and we will honor those talents on this blog. The first story is about Luis.

One of our long time members, Luis Miguel Ramirez, had an internship at KXAN in Austin this summer. He has had a tremendous amount of success and one of his stories got published on the internet and reached national news! We are so proud of you, Luis!

If you'd like to read the story, follow the following link:

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/mobile/Brick_with_racial_note_thrown_into_home

Way to go Luis!

-Becca Blanda

audition for fall '09

Hello all! This is all of the information you may need to audition for Longhorn Singers Fall '09!

Auditions for the fall semester will be held on Tuesday August 25: 9 am-12:30, 2:30-3, and 4-6:30 (the last time slot can go longer if need be) and on Wednesday August 26: 9am-12 and 2-6. Please email utlonghornsingers@gmail.com to set up your 10 minute audition time.

If Tim (our director) invites you back for the dance call back that will be held at 8 pm on Wednesday August 26 in the main choir room as of right now. And if and when you make it into Longhorn Singers our first class day is Thursday.

To audition: You will need to prepare 30 seconds of a pop/broadway song. Make sure it shows off your voice well. Tim will also ask you to do some rhythm exercises and some sight singing (he'll give you a starting note so breathe easy if you've never done sight singing before.) These auditions will be held in MRH 2.116B which is the "choral and orchestral ensemble office. The dance callback consists of our choreographer teaching 2 routines and then all of the auditioners will perform the dances for Tim and the rest of us as we cheer you on :)

My advice: during your singing audition, be very outgoing and personable. We're a very close group and Tim wants people who will blend well with us as well as good singers/dancers. And just go for it. If you mess up, mess up with style. For the dance auditions, trust me not everyone in Longhorn Singers is going to make it into the American Ballet Company or anything. Just smile and go for it! Ham it up!

Longhorn singers is also a class. You get an hour of credit for it and you need to sign up. So if you are chosen to be in Longhorn Singers, please please please remember to sign up for ENS 109P. We meet on Tuesday and Thursday from 4-5:30 and on Sunday evenings from 5-8 for choreography rehearsal. Attendance is required.

Lastly, if you plan to audition, join our Facebook group: Audition for Longhorn Singers Fall 2009 so we can get to know your pretty faces before you audition! I'm very excited about this semester! And break a leg to everyone!

-Becca Blanda - Historian for Longhorn Singers

New Website INFO!

Check out the new events stuff and new profile pages on the website!