Week 19

Good Evening Grissom Choir,

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!  This semester is PACKED full of Grissom Choir events.  Please read carefully everything below in order to be up-to-date!


This Week in Choir…
Women’s Choir:
​Theory Review & Meditation
Re-Voicing
State Assessment repertoire introduction
    -The River Sleeps Beneath the Sky
    -Ad Astra

Men’s Choir:
Theory Review & Meditation
Re-Voicing
State Assessment repertoire introduction
    -Agnus Dei
    -Sisi Ni Moja

Concert Choir:
Re-Voicing
State Assessment repertoire introduction
    -Insanae et Vanae Curea
    -Sisi Ni Moja
Learn Haydn Hits: Day 1

Chamber Choir:
Theory Review & Meditation
The Road Home Review
State Assessment repertoire introduction
    -O Nata Lux
    -Sinnuh Man
    -Insanae et Vanae Curea
    -Sisi Ni Moja
Learn Haydn Hits: Day 1



Concert & Chamber Choir Extra Performance Dates:

For those in Concert & Chamber Choir, students will receive a list of extra performance dates that are required for those two ensembles.  Information about these events were given out last semester via email, this will only be a reminder.  A Canvas post and email will be sent out this week reminding students and adults once again of these events.


UM Men’s Festival Chorus

For the 7 men that registered for this event, the festival is THIS Friday!  Please be in the front parking lot of First Baptist Church on Governors Drive at 5:45.  Because will be traveling via a bus that we are sharing with Buckhorn High School down to this event, if you are not on time, you will be left behind!  Please wear jeans, and bring lunch money with you.  We will be arriving back at FBC around 7:30pm that night.  If students have not turned in the $20 registration fee by Friday, you will not be allowed on the bus.


Solo & Ensemble Registration

For those that are wanting to participate in the Solo & Ensemble Festival, you MUST come and see me by Tuesday, end-of-school.  Please be prepared to discuss what 2 songs you are singing, and how you will be preparing for them.  A pianist will not be provided for the festival.  You must also register at https://www.grissomchoir.com/solo--ensemble.html.


Yankee Candle Fundraising

We will begin a Yankee Candle Fundraiser next Monday!  This fundraiser will run from January 13th-24th.  Packets will be given out in class to those that wish to participate, and students will also have the opportunity to sell digitally.  More information will be emailed out later this week in a separate email.  Funds raised can be applied to anything Grissom Choir/Charms related, including trips!


Nashville Heritage Festival Trip

For those students traveling to Nashville this coming April, we will be meeting this Thursday during 2nd lunch to begin working on the 2 pieces that we will be performing at the festival.  Remember, these rehearsals are MANDATORY.  If you do not come to these rehearsals, you will not be traveling!


Trip Updates:

European Performance Tour - 5th installment of $177 due in 4 weeks on Friday, January 31st. For those that participated in our Rock-A-Thon, please turn all monies into the money box this week for the credit to be applied towards your trip.

Nashville Heritage Festival Trip - 4th installment of $110 due is due in 4 weeks on Friday, January 31st.