Week 10

Good Evening Grissom Choir,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Fall Break and is ready for the remainder of this semester!  Congratulations to those that were selected to be apart of this year’s Fine Arts Musical, “Tuck Everlasting”!


This Week in Choir…

Women’s Choir:
​Music Theory Review
Introduce Natural Minor Scale on solfege
Continue learning Beams of Light, What You Gonna Call, & African Noel
Continue reviewing new text on While By Our Sleeping Flocks We Lay with no piano

Men’s Choir:
Music Theory Review
Introduce Natural Minor Scale on solfege
Review Festive Processional, A la Nanita Nana, & Born, Born in Bethlehem
Begin new Winter Concert repertoire

Concert Choir:
Continue learning/reviewing Pat-A-Pan, SugarPlum Fairies, & Candlelight Carol
Section 2 of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

Chamber Choir:
Music Theory Review
Continue Concert Choir winter repertoire review
Choral Festival repertoire review
Begin Winter Concert repertoire



All-City Choral Festival:

All-City Choral Festival is in 2 weeks!  Participants, please check your email tomorrow afternoon for more information concerning transportation, itinerary, and payment for the festival!


All-State Choral Festival Auditions:

Auditionees, our official audition day is Monday, November 4th!  If you have not picked up your music from me, please do so ASAP! Practice tracks can be found at www.grissomchoir.com/allstate2020. Please check your email tomorrow afternoon for more information concerning transportation and itinerary for this audition.


Grissom Choral Festival:

This weekend, Grissom Choir will be hosting the 1st Grissom Choral Festival! This is a wonderful new opportunity for current middle school students, grades 6th-8th, to sing and perform alongside current high school choir members (Chamber Choir/Leadership Team) and see what being in the Grissom Choir is all about!  There will be a free public concert at 2:00pm Saturday afternoon should anyone wish to come and listen!


Grissom Choir Trip Updates:


European Performance Tour - 2nd installment of $177 due next Friday, October 25th.
Nashville Heritage Festival Trip - 1st installment of $110 due next Friday, October 25th.