In December, Heart of the Valley Children’s Choir’s female a capella group, the Unmentionables, sang at Portland Grotto in the Catholic chapel. Maya shares the solos with several members as they sing “King of Anything”.
Maya in the Unmentionables at the Grotto
Mozart Festival videos
Music Celebrations has published four songs from the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, which Maya participated in.
This movie is of Justin Huddleston and Maya singing This Is The Day, taken by Terry Anderson in Prague:
Farewell Concert (off to Austria & Cech Republic)!
Maya’s Chamber Choir is currently in Austria for the Mozart Choir Festival. Here is a glimpse of their farewell concert from June 25, 2011 at the Presbyterian Church in Corvallis.
Maya’s solo starts at around 8 minutes into the video.
Track 2011 Highlights
May 21 State Finals at UofO’s Hayward Field, Gazette-Times. Maya’s 4×100 meter relay team came in 4th with a time of 49.54!
April 27 Track Meet vs South Albany, Gazette-Times. Maya wins the 100 and 200 meter races.
April 6 Track Meet vs CV, Gazette-Times quotes Maya about the 200m race.
Mr. Spartan a Capella Night
Anna Lind and Maya Van Londen sing an Aretha Franklin favorite, A Natural Woman, with The Unmentionables from Heart of the Valley Children’s Choir of Corvallis, Oregon. They are helping raise funds for the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation at the annual Mr. Spartan a Capella Night .
Senior Night at CHS
Maya sang the Star Spangled Banner at the Corvallis High School Girls Basketball game tonight. It was the senior girl’s last game.
MLK Celebration
Maya Van Londen and Shelley Moon performing at MLK Celebration. Photo © Nancy Raskauskas, Gazette-Times.
Maya sang Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, a traditional anthem in the African-American community, at the January 13, 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at the Majestic Theater in Corvallis, Oregon. She followed main speaker Shelley Moon, poet, playwright and proud instigator of social change.
Read the Gazette-Times article.
The song “was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900 by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School.
Its principal, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words to introduce its honored guest Booker T. Washington. The poem was later set to music by Johnson’s brother John in 1905. Singing this song quickly became a way for African Americans to demonstrate their patriotism and hope for the future.” (Wikipedia 2011)
A Christmas Carol
Maya is singing a couple of solos and the part of Martha Cratchet in A Christmas Carol this weekend and next week at the Majestic Theatre in Corvallis, Oregon. Purchase tickets online at Willamette Stage Company. (Photo by Jesse Skoubo, The Entertainer, the Gazette Times)
CHS Varsity Soccer
Maya made 4 or 5 goals this season as a freshman. Her team won the Mid-Willamette District Championship and made it to the Quarterfinals in the State Championship.
Read more about the team in the Gazette Times:
Special Olympics Soccer Camp
As a varsity soccer team member, Maya was able to participate in the Special Olympics soccer camp this weekend.
I just wanted to pass along to you that Maya was a great volunteer at Special Olympics on Sunday. As usual, she had a great upbeat attitude and was very friendly and encouraging to the athletes. Please let her know that her positive attitude was noticed and appreciated. —Varsity Parent