After-School Activities Cancelled Due to Severe Weather

May 8, 2024

With strong storms in the forecast this afternoon, MICDS is canceling all after-school activities today, May 8. This includes all extracurricular activities and athletic practices and games, both at home and away. The Middle School ASAP program and Lower School Extended Day program are also canceled. Please make arrangements to pick up your children at our usual dismissal time today (3 p.m. for Lower School, 3:15 p.m. for Middle and Upper School). Campus will be closed at 4:00 p.m. Please note: the Band Concert scheduled for this evening will be rescheduled for tomorrow night, Thursday, May 9, with the 6th/7th Grade Band Concert beginning at 6 p.m. and the 8th Grade/Upper School Bands performing at 7:30 p.m. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Bernard Berry.

Bravo to Fall Choir Concert Performers and District Choir Qualifiers

2018 Upper School Fall Choir Concert

Last Friday, Upper School choir students performed in their first big concert of the year— the Fall Concert. Students from grades 9 to 11 performed a range of songs from „Rhapsody“ by Rollo A. Dilworth and „What a Wonderful World“ arranged by Russ Robinson to „Shoshone Love Song“ arranged by Roger Emerson and „I’ll Say It Anyway!“ by Pierre Certon. The 12th grade Chamber Choir sang a variety of songs as well, including „Wanting Memories“ by Ysaye M. Barnwell and „Come (Again) Sweet Death“ by J.S. Bach. They closed out the evening with „Bridge Over Troubled Water“ by Paul Simon and arranged by Kirby Shaw.

A standing ovation goes to our choir students and Upper School Choir Director Dana Self! We’re already counting down the days to the next performance, the Winter Masterworks Concert on Wednesday, December 12.

District Choir-Bound

MICDS has nine students selected to perform with the prestigious St. Louis Metro District Choir. To qualify, each student prepared a 90-second solo and completed an intense sight-singing audition.

Juniors and seniors with an asterisk (*) scored in the top 20 of their respective voice parts and will audition for the 2019 Missouri All-State Choir held at MICDS on Thursday, November 1, 2018.

  • Anna Abramov ’22
  • *Jack Cai ’19
  • *Nick Clifford ’20
  • *Layth Hamed ’19
  • Samantha Iken ’22
  • *Bess Lehman ’20
  • Nicholas Mellanby ’19
  • Akshay Patwardhan ’20
  • *Arjun Ramakrishnan ’20

The St. Louis Metro will perform on Saturday, November 10, 2018 at The Principia. The choir will be directed by Dr. Barb Lamont, Director of Choral Activities at Southeast Missouri State University.

District Choir QualifiersRow 1 (L-R) Iken, Lehman, Abramov
Row 2 (L-R) Patwardhan, Cai, Hamed, Clifford
Not pictured:  Mellanby, Ramakrishnan