This Week in Choir: Week 25

Good Afternoon Grissom Choir,

Congratulations to the following acts that were selected to participate in this year’s Pizza & Pop Showcase!

“26”
“Breed”
“Dream a Little Dream of Me”
“For All We Know”
“Hallelujah”
“Men I Trust”
“Skyfall”
“Take My Breath Away”
“The Joke”
“The Winner Takes It All”
“Valerie”
“Zombie


This Week in Choir…

Women’s Choir:
Finish learning Cantata Domino, Festival Sanctus, & I Never Saw A Moor
Continue learning The Road Not Taken & Radiant Sister of the Day

Men’s Choir:
Music Theory Test
Continue learning Leave Her Johnny & Wade In The Water
Begin reviewing The Wellerman

Concert Choir:
Music Theory Test
Continue learning Keep your Lamps & Modimo
Begin learning verse text of Dirait-On
Begin learning Fare Thee Well

Chamber Choir:
UAB Honor Choir
Finish Text Study & Musicality of all repertoire
Legislative Performance

Vocal Lab:
Weekly Rehearsal Assessments
SRF Assignment


Chamber Choir UAB & Montgomery Trip
Chamber Choir students, please be reminded of our 2 trip this week:  UAB Honor Choir on Monday (call is 6:15am in Grissom Choir Shirt), and Montgomery Legislative Performance on Thursday (Call is 7:45am in Grissom Choir Shirt, bringing Full Uniform).  Please see the separate packets that was sent home over the past 2 weeks which details all information concerning these trips.

Pizza & Pop Ticket RSVP
All friends and family members of Grissom Choir students are invited to join us for Pizza & Pop, located in the Martha deFord Hays Auditorium on Friday, February 24th at 6:00pm!  1 Ticket @ $10.00 each (sold at the door, cash & card accepted) includes a "showcase" style performance evening featuring our multi-talented Grissom Choir students, along with 2 slices of Dominos Pizza, a drink, chips, & dessert.  All attendees are required to RSVP by Wednesday, February 22nd in order to attend.  Please visit www.grissomchoir.com/pizzapop to reserve your dinner & entertainment today!

Solo & Ensemble Accompanist Rehearsal & Festival Packet
Our official date and time for this event is scheduled for the afternoon of February 28th.  Permission-to-Travel forms were handed out this past week in class, and will be due by Monday, February 27th.  A festival packet was also handed out this past week, and will be emailed to all parents/guardians.  There will be a REQUIRED rehearsal with our accompanist on the afternoon of Sunday, February 26th in the Grissom Choir room.  All participants are required to attend this rehearsal.  Specific times will be given out next week.

Concert & Chamber Choir Cantus Collaboration
This year, The Grissom Concert & Chamber Choirs will combine to perform alongside other high school choirs in a collaboration concert with Cantus, a world renowned men’s vocal ensemble.  This concert is sponsored by The Huntsville Chamber Music Guild, and we are honored to be asked to participate in this workshop.  There will be a rehearsal on Saturday, March 4th from 10:30 to noon at Trinity United Methodist Church for all Concert & Chamber Choir members.  Pizza Lunch will be provided afterwards for all students.  The concert will be that evening at 5:00pm.  Friends and family of Grissom Choir will receive reduced price tickets for those that wish to attend.  Concert Choir has been working on this collaborative concert in class, and Chamber Choir will begin rehearsing after our Legislative performance.

Grissom Choir Course Registration
All students should have (or will soon) received their Course Registration sheets this past week or in the coming weeks. It is my expectation that all current underclassmen choir students will continue to take choir. Should there be any student who does not plan on taking choir next year, please come and speak with me privately.  For students who are wishing to audition for The Chamber Choir, please register for the class using Mixed Chorus IV (Course Number: 05110G1004) on the course registration sheet.  All other students should register for The Concert Choir, which should be listed as Mixed Chorus III (Course Number: 05110G1003) on the course registration sheet. This is this same Course Names & Numbers as years prior. Based on both Concert & Chamber Choir auditions, I will relocate students back to Women’s/Mens Choir or to and from Concert & Chamber Choir.  Should there be any student that wishes to be in The Vocal Lab class (an entire class block that allows students to rehearse their All-City, All-State,Solo & Ensemble, and Pizza & Pop music!), please come and speak with me so that we can have the correct class listed on your course registration sheet!  All students will receive a Grissom Choir Recruitment Flyer this coming week which describes these 3 courses in full.