This Week in CHoir: Week 28

Good Afternoon Grissom Choir,

Congratulations to the 10 Grissom Choir students who are participating in this year’s All-State Choral Festival this weekend in Birmingham.  You are representing Grissom Choir excellently, and we all are so proud of your accomplishments!

This Week in Choir…

Women’s Choir:
SCPA: Laudamus Te & Joshua!

Men’s Choir:
SCPA:  The Storm & Ubi Caritas

Concert Choir:
SCPA: The River Sleeps Beneath the Sky & Cantate Domino

Chamber Choir:
SCPA: Musick’s Empire & Set Me As a Seal.


State Choral Performance Assessment
State Choral Performance Assessment (SCPA) will be held at Grissom High School on March 6th & 7th (THIS WEEK).  Each choir (along with other choirs in our district) will perform the 2 songs that we have been working on this semester in front of a panel of 3 adjudicators.  These adjudicators (typically collegiate choral directors) 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 go into a Sight-Reading room, where they will be adjudicated by 1 judge on how well they can learn a new piece of music in the span of 5 minutes.  Each of these 4 adjudicators will then rate our performance based on a rubric and scoring sheet: I: Superior, II: Excellent, III: Good, & IV: Fair.  Grissom Choir has had a history of being rated Superior & Excellent in their performances, of which I am excited to continue with our students.  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.  As this is a performance, all students are expected to be at school and participate in this assessment for a Summative Performance Grade.  Please see below for the schedule for theses days:

    Wednesday, March 6th: A-day
        A1 - Concert Choir (will be excused from A1 class)
        A2 - Women’s Choir (will be excused from A2 class)

    Thursday, March 7th: A-Day
        A1 - Chamber Choir (regular class block)
        A2 - Men’s Choir (regular class block)


Sincerely,

Tucker Ratcliff
Choral Director | Grissom Choir
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