The Iowa Choral Directors Association will sponsor the Opus Honor Choir on Thursday, November 19th at CY Stephens Auditorium in the ISU campus. Four choirs of 180 voices from across Iowa are featured at Opus. The four honor choirs are: a 5th/6th Grade Select Honor Choir, a 7th/8th Grade Bass
Clef Honor Choir, a 7th/8th Grade Treble Clef Honor Choir, and a 9th grade Mixed Honor Choir.
Mr. Schulte may submit singers for consideration for the Opus Honor Choirs. Each student will them work to learn the preselected audition music. We then record the student singing the audition music. All mp3s are sent to a judge who selects the students for the Honor Choir. If selected, you travel with Mr. Schulte to Ames, IA on November 20th and spend the day rehearsing with the other selected students from around the state. The day concludes with a performance in CY Stephens Auditorium.
Students who would like to make audition mp3s for Opus should attend as many of the Opus rehearsals as possible. The audition music is VERY challenging, and we don’t have very much time to learn it! Audition music may be picked up from Mr. Schulte.