Crescenta Valley High School
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| Crescenta Valley High School |
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| Motto: Honor Pride Tradition | |
| Established | September 1961 |
| Type | US Public Secondary |
| Principal | Linda Evans and Mike Livingston (co-principals) |
| Students | 2410^[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | Los Angeles County (La Crescenta address), California USA |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Navy Blue and Columbia Blue |
| Mascot | Falcons |
| Website | www.cvfalcons.com |
Crescenta Valley High School (CVHS) is a secondary school located at 2900 Community Avenue in La Crescenta-Montrose, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The school is a part of the Glendale Unified School District.
The school serves the community of La Crescenta and the GUSD portion of La Cañada Flintridge. CVHS opened its doors for the first time in September 1961. As of 2005, the principals are Linda Evans and Mike Livingston. The athletics teams are known as the Falcons.
Crescenta Valley received a National Blue Ribbon School award in 2000 and a California Distinguished School award in 2005. Crescenta Valley received a Bravo Award for excellence in the arts from Los Angeles County in 2005.
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[edit] Advanced Placement
CV offers a wide variety of A.P. (advanced placement) courses. Most of them include: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Science, Calculus I, Calculus II, Statistics, U.S. History, European History, Economics, Government, Psychology, German, Spanish, French, American Literature, English Literature, Art History, and more.
[edit] Visual and Performing Arts Department
Crescenta Valley High School's VAPA department includes a number of Art classes (sculpture, paint, ceramics), Dance Classes, Instrumental Music classes, Vocal/Choral Music classes, and Theater Classes.
[edit] Spring Musical
Every Spring, the Theater, Choral, and Instrumental Music departments join forces to produce the annual "Spring Musical." This tradition has lasted for the past 10 years. Some former Shows include:
Little Shop of Horrors in 1997
The Wiz in 1998
Bye Bye Birdie in 1999
The Pajama Game in 2000
The Music Man in 2001
West Side Story in 2002
Kiss Me, Kate in 2003
Fiddler on the Roof in 2004
Guys and Dolls in 2005
and Crazy for You in 2006
It was announced on November 21, 2006 that Pippin will be the musical performed this upcoming March, 2007
The Director for the shows has been R. Brent Beerman from start, Kathi Chaplar-Beerman (an alumni of CVHS) was originally hired to produce these shows with Beerman as a Vocal Director (Chaplar-Beerman has perfect pitch). She also used to conduct for the pit orchestra until Mathew Schick was hired in the fall of 2001. Chaplar-Beerman is credited by the students as a "perfect woman." Since 2001, Schick has conducted the orchestra. To relieve Chaplar of even more stress, Claire Rowan came into the picture as another Vocal Director from 2003 to 2004, after which Tammi Alderman joined the Musical Team in 2005 for Guys and Dolls as a Vocal "Coach." It wasn't until 2006, when they performed George and Ira Gerschwin's Crazy for You that Alderman became the only Vocal Director. Chaplar is now referred to as the Artistic Director, designing, painting, and even building some of (if not most) the sets, crediting to her "perfectness."
There have been two Official Choreographers for the musicals. Originally, Beerman and Chaplar used students as "Dance Captains" who would work as a team to come up with choreography. Elizabeth Weaver, an English Teacher at CVHS, was the choreographer for the musicals between 2002 and 2004 until she had to pull out so she could focus on getting her master's degree, which she now has. In 2005, Julie Kay Stallcup stepped in and has choreographed 3 musicals (see below) at CV. Talya Bershtel (CVHS alumnus class of 2004) was Stallcup's Assistant Choreographer in 2005 and 2006. She is not likely to continue this because Stallcup has left The Vibe Dance Studio to create her own, Revolution Dance Center. Hilary Morris will become the next Assistant Choreographer for the musical Pippin.
[edit] Advanced Drama Program
R. Brent Beerman,teaches the Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Drama classes at CVHS. Kathi Chaplar-Beerman teaches the other Beginning Drama Class.
The Advanced Drama Class performs a Fall Play every fall, as well as a Spring Play every spring with Coffee Talks placed randomly throughout the year.
List of Some Fall Plays
Any Number Can Die
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
†Beerman and Chaplar, chaplar is good, decided to do a musical in 2005 with the Advanced Drama Class, which Julie Kay Stallcup choreographed.
List of Some Spring Plays
Student Original Bedlam†
Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas‡
†In 2005, the Advanced Drama Classes produced a completely student-done play. The play was titled Bedlam. It was directed by Students Danielle Esteves and Solange Ortiz, written by a 9-person writing staff (Head Writer Elliott Barker, and students Polet Bagatourian, Stephanie "Sugar" Brooks, Paul Chung, Eric Kursinski, Cameron Rice, Rachel Snow, Jillian Tessman, and Samantha Toia), the play was later re-written by Rice with contribution from the other writers, namely Kursinski, over the week of Spring Break. The costume and make-up students were Maureen Stone, Melanie Stone, and Jillian Tessman.
‡In 2006, the Advanced Drama Classes produced two plays at once. Some students were cast in both plays, seeing as how A Tuna Christmas is a sequel to Greater Tuna and some characters were in both plays.
[edit] Vocal Music Department
Sometimes called "Falcon Music", the Vocal Music Department is home to 6 Choirs: A Cappella Women, A Cappella Men, Women's Ensemble, Charismatics (a Chamber Choir), A Cappella Choir (A Cappella Women, A Cappella Men, and Charismatics), and the Valley Blues Show Choir.
The Vocal Music Department has seen at least 4 different choir directors, the most famous of whom is Shirley Nute. Also, Dr. Kerry Burtis, Claire Rowan, and current director Tammi Alderman have directed the program.
The department has also traveled across the United States competing against other High Schools. They have traveled to Washington D.C., Hawaii, Colorado, and in the Spring of 2007 they will be traveling to Europe.
CV has 3 "annual" concerts through the Vocal Music Department.
Feast of Lights in December
Spring Concert usually in March
and the Pops Concert in June
This past school year's Pops Concert theme was "The Times They Are A-Changin'", using mainly 1960's music. For the 2007 Pops Concert, the theme will be a Broadway/Musical Theme, singing showtunes and medleys from different musicals.
The Valley Blues Show Choir also participated in Disneyland's Magic Music Days Festival on June 23rd and 24th, 2006 and plan to do it again in 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ Student count from GUSD information page
