This Week in Choir: Week 28

Good Afternoon Grissom Choir,

Congratulations to our Chamber Choir on an excellent performance of our National Anthem at this past week’s Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new Grissom Baseball field!


This Week in Choir…

Women’s Choir:
Assessment!

Men’s Choir:
Assessment!

Concert Choir:
Assessment!
Continue learning The Gift to Sing & The Music of Living
Continue reviewing Measure Me Sky!

Chamber Choir:
Assessment!
Continue learning Goodbye Yellow Brick Road & Keramus
Continue reviewing Measure Me Sky!


Grissom Choral Parents Association Monthly Board Meeting
This coming Monday evening, the GCPA Executive Board will be hosting their monthly board meeting at the South Parkway Starbucks at 5:30p.m.  These meetings are open to any current Grissom Choir stakeholder, including parents/guardians.  If you wish to become more involved with supporting our students, or are interested in becoming a member of the board next year, please feel free to attend.

Grissom Choral Assessment
THIS COMING WEEK, our second annual Grissom Choral Assessment, newly renamed the District III Choral Assessment, will be held at Grissom High School on March 11th.  Each choir, alongside our three feeder middle school choral programs, will perform 2 songs in contrasting style that we have been working on this semester in front of a panel of 2 clinician.  These clinicians assess each choir in their execution and performance of these two songs, focusing on blend, balance, tone, rhythmic and note accuracy, musical phrasing, energy, etc.  Each choir will then be rated our performance based on a rubric and scoring sheet: I: Outstanding, II: Superior, III: Excellent,  IV: Good, & V: Fair.  Grissom Choir has had a history of being rated Outstanding & Superior in their performances, of which I am excited to continue with our students.  The on-stage choir is then given a post-performance one-on-one clinic & workshop with one of the adjudicators, which is designed to encourage, invigorate, and enforce the daily teachings of each department.  All of our choir’s assessments will take place during the normal school day.  All students will need to bring their complete concert uniform to school that day and may leave it in the women’s & men’s dressing rooms until their performance time (Concert Choir must wear their uniform to school).  As this is a performance, all students are expected to be at school and participate in this assessment for a 400 point Summative Performance Grade.  Please see below for the schedule for this day:

    Wednesday, March 11th: B-day
        B1 - Chamber Choir (will be excused from A1 class)
        B1 /Advisory- Concert Choir (normal class time/will be excused from Advisory)
        Advisory/B2 - Men’s Choir (will be excused from Advisory & Class, with 3rd Lunch)
        B2 - Women’s Choir (normal class time with 1st Lunch)

2026 All-State Choral Festival
The festival cost this year for all students is $406.  These costs are based on current hotel room pricing, (breakfast included), as well as updated All-State Registration Fees.  All money is due by Tuesday, March 9th.  We will have a MANDATORY All-State meeting the evening of Tuesday, March 9th at 6:30pm at the Starbucks on South Parkway.  This will be required for all students participating, as well as parents, even if they are not traveling to Birmingham.  A letter was handed out last month, and a more detailed packet was sent home with students this week with the above information, as well as all things All-State related.  If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to reach out!

Solo & Ensemble 
For our 2 soloists and 1 ensemble that have registered for Solo & Ensemble, your $15 per solo & $25 per ensemble is due in the Money Box or MMO.  Music has been given out to all participants.  Our official date and time for this event is scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, March, 24th.  A Letter/Email will be handed/emailed out next week with more information.  All forms & monies will be due by the event


Sincerely,

Tucker Ratcliff
Choral Director | Grissom Choir
Webmaster & Editor | Alabama ACDA
Treasurer | Huntsville Choral Director’s Association
(256) 428-8000 ext. 2271 | [email protected]