Third and fourth grade members of the Barton Hills Choir will perform a special outdoor show this Saturday, March 27, on the playground steps of Barton Hills Elementary.
Weather forecasters predict a perfect late afternoon, so get your lawn chairs and blankets, invite your friends, co-workers, and neighbors, and join us for the school’s first “Eaglestock!” The performance will begin at 4 PM.
Download a full size version of this poster to send invitations to your friends and family.
The Barton Hills Choir web site uses the amazing and free Google Analytics to track aggregate information about our visitors. It’s fascinating to see how vast the internet audience is for the talented Choir that represents our neighborhood elementary school. Here are some fun facts about the visitors to this web site since it went live on December 1, 2009:
Between December 1 and March 10 there have been 1,783 visits to the Barton Hills Choir web site, with 5,084 page views. Average time spent on the site is 5 minutes 19 seconds, and 35% of the visitors are new, which indicates lots of repeat traffic from the other 65%!
Nearly half of the visitors arrive at the BHC web site by clicking on a direct link like a bookmark or URL in an email. A quarter are referred from other sites (e.g Facebook), and the remaining quarter arrive from search engines (primarily Google).
Over 90% of the visitors are from the US, but the site has also attracted visitors from many other countries, including Brazil, Canada, France, India, Croatia, the Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Australia, Sweden, Ecuador, Japan, Norway, Jamaica, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Pakistan, Germany, Singapore, and Hungary.
As you would expect, the vast majority of US visitors are from Texas, but the site has been viewed by residents of 30 other states as well, with California, New York, Louisiana and Florida topping the list.
The most popular content on the site is the home page, followed by the About the Choir page, and the video category page. The most listened to songs are the new School Choir song and the Annie medley. The most watched video is the Zilker Tree Lighting performance.
50% of the visitors use Macintosh computers to visit the site, 44.5% use Windows, 3.5% use iPhones, and the remaining 2% are split between Linux, iPod, Blackberry, and Android platforms. 53% of visitors connect to the internet via cable, 16.5% via DSL, 17% via T1 or OC3, and 1% via dialup (12.5% are unknown).
The highest number of visitors in one day was 49 on December 2 (the day after Mr. Tabone announced it for the first time via email). Second highest was 42 visitors on December 17 and 22. The most popular time to visit? 4 PM.
Thanks for taking the time to visit, come back soon, and help spread the word by sharing the web site address with friends, family, and colleagues!
Audio files are posted to this web site in standard mp3 format, playable on your computer, iPod, and many home and auto sound systems.
To provide an optimal experience this web site utilizes media formats that are best heard or viewed with the following free browser plugins installed:
If you do not have these plugins installed you may not be able to view video or listen to and download audio files. Click the links above to open the installation pages in a new window. After installing restart your web browser and return to our site to enjoy the new features.
Once these are installed the song titles will appear in your web browser with a triangle next to them like this:
When you click on the triangle to listen to the song the inline music player opens, which looks like this:
The song will begin to play and you will see the triangle turn into a pause button, with the progress indicated in the line underneath the song title. Elapsed and total time of the song is indicated on the left and a link to download the song appears on the right.
Since browsers can be configured several ways to handle mp3 links, what happens when you click on “download” may differ depending upon your computer and how it is set up to manage the mp3 file type.
If you are using a Macintosh you may need to hold down the OPTION key on your keyboard before clicking the download link, otherwise your web browser may simply open a new window to play the song. On a Windows computer you may need to right-click on the download link to initiate the transfer.
Note: The Safari web browser on the Apple iPhone and iPad does not support Adobe Flash, but does not require it to play the audio or video files on this web site.
The performance by sixth grade members of the Barton Hills Choir that originally aired on KUT’s Eklektikos program is now available for listening on the KUT web site:
Barton Hills Choir on KUT’s Eklektikos, Dec. 22, 2009
Eklektikos host John Aielli and Gavin Tabone talk briefly about the choir, followed by performances of these holiday favorites:
1. Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
2. Silver Bells
3. Winter Wonderland
4. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
5. I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)
6. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
7. Waltz of the Flowers
8. Jingle Bell Rock
John Aielli and Mr. Tabone talk about the band, the choir, and members introduce themselves at 6:59 in the program timeline.
“Wow, these kids are good!” proclaims Aielli at the end of their 20 minute performance. When he compliments them on their moves during “Jingle Bell Rock” you can hear the choir members giggling in the background.
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