Youth Performing Arts School
The Youth Performing Arts School( YPAS) is a performing arts school in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, that concentrates on various vocal, instrumental, theatre, musical theatre and dance disciplines for high school students.
Students who attend have no less than a ninety- minute block of arts studies each day( sometimes more), with the balance of their academic classes at duPont Manual High School.
YPAS is one of only 100 U.S. schools of its type.
Students are selected from within Jefferson County through a vigorous audition process.
Annually, about 85% of student graduates attend major performing arts colleges.
Among other things, YPAS is known for its outstanding orchestra, the Philharmonia.
Under the direction of former Orchestral Director Lyndon Lawless( 1996 – 2006), the YPAS Philharmonia gave performances at Carnegie Hall in New York, was featured on National Public Radio's" From the Top" and performed in various venues throughout the United States.
The Philharmonia is an all- string orchestra composed of around 30 of the region's finest string players, many of whom go on to attend professional music conservatories or music- based colleges such as Juilliard.
Perhaps the most widely viewed YPAS performance, took place at President George W. Bush's first term Inauguration, when the YPAS chorus sang" America the Beautiful".
United States Senator and duPont Manual grad Mitch McConnell was present at the inaugural performance.
The Youth Performing Arts School Concert Choir has consistently received superior ratings and prestigious invitations to perform from 1978 to 2000 under its founding director David Brown, from 2000 to 2011 under Dr. S. Timothy Glasscock, and from 2011 to present by Jacob Cook.
Since 1998, the choir has toured Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, performing in such sought- after venues as St. Mark's in Venice, Notre Dame in Paris, Rochester Cathedral, Saint Peter's in Rome, Saint Susanna in Rome, Santiago de Compostela, Catedral de Madrid, Catedral de Lisboa, St. Stephansdom in Vienna, Stiftskirche in Durnstein, Church of Holy Corpse in Cesky Krumlov, Melk Abbey, Schweiklberg Abbey in Vilshofen, and Chateau D'Ambois, amid many other fine venues.
The Concert Choir performs music from every style period and in eleven foreign languages.
The Choir is frequently requested to perform for dignitaries and social events throughout the Commonwealth and the nation.
The choir has sung for three presidents, numerous governors, backed up various pop stars such as Josh Groban( 2001, 2002, 2003) and has performed frequently with the Louisville Chorus, Kentucky's longest thriving professional choral arts agency.
YPAS offers the following majors: Design and Production, Vocal, Orchestra, Band, Piano, Theater, Musical Theatre, and Dance.
Though often overlooked, YPAS also offers many arts classes for non-majors who attend duPont Manual High School.
River Ridge High School (Illinois)
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RRHS, a part of River Ridge Community Unit School District 210, serves the communities and surrounding areas of Elizabeth and Hanover.
The campus is located 27 miles southeast of Dubuque, Iowa, and serves a mixed village and rural residential community.
Cherokee High School (Georgia)
Cherokee High School is one of six public high schools of the Cherokee County School District in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States.
It is located in Canton.
Established in 1956, it replaced Canton High School, the county's first high school.
There are six high schools in the Cherokee County School District: Etowah High School, Sequoyah High School, Woodstock High School, Creekview High School, and River Ridge High School
Fivay High School
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Opened in 2010 the school was built for 1,870 students from Hudson High School, Ridgewood High School, and River Ridge High School which had been experiencing overcrowding.
Eagle Ridge High School
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River Ridge High School (Woodstock, Georgia)
River Ridge High School is a 6A high school in Woodstock, Georgia, United States.
It is located at 400 Arnold Mill Road, Woodstock, Georgia 30188.
The school's athletic teams are known as the Knights.
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Palmetto Ridge High School is part of the District School Board of Collier County.
River Ridge High School (Lacey, Washington)
River Ridge High School (RRHS), commonly referred to as Ridge, is a public high school located in Lacey, Washington, United States and is one of three comprehensive high schools of the North Thurston Public Schools.
It was established in 1993 and named for its proximity to the geographical ridge of the Nisqually River valley.
It earned its school nickname due to its location within the Hawk's Prairie area of Thurston County off Exit 111 of Interstate 5, serving students living in Mushroom Corner and Tanglewilde-Thompson Place.
River Ridge and its feeder school, Nisqually Middle School, serves many students with parents who are on active duty or have retired from the military due to its proximity to Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
River Ridge was constructed as a community solution to handle the over-flowing capacities of neighboring Timberline and North Thurston High Schools in the late 1980s-early 1990s, producing a more diverse student body population than the other two high schools in the district.
Woodstock High School (Georgia)
Woodstock High School is a public high school located in Woodstock, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
It serves grades 9 to 12, and was the fourth high school built in the Cherokee County School District, along with Cherokee, Etowah, Sequoyah, Creekview, and River Ridge High Schools.
The school opened in 1996 with only a freshman and sophomore class.
As each year progressed, a junior and senior class was filled by the original sophomores( and transfer students of the same grade).
Woodstock first fielded varsity teams in each sport for the 1998 – 1999 school year.
The school's mascot is the wolverine.
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Question: Are both Youth Performing Arts School and River Ridge High School (Woodstock, Georgia) located in the same country?
Answer: yes