In December we had out winter concert and one of the songs we sang, Once Upon a December, can be seen to the left.

I performed in the District V Honor Chorus, singing five songs with singers from several schools, including Pure Imagination, The Awakening, Alleluia Incantation, Wade in the Water, and Kua Rongo Mai Koe. I learned the music independently, and trained the details and accents of the pieces during a day-long rehearsal.

On __/__, we participated in the Georgia State University Singfest, an event hosted by the university in order to promote interest in their programs. We learned two pieces, Wide Open Spaces and Shine the Light, and practiced and performed them for an entire day, as well as getting to see opera performers from the GSU programs.

On 10/19, we performed a fall concert, singing "Viva La Musica," "Wide Open Spaces," and "Sanctuary." It went very well, with performances from the EA and JA choruses keeping the concert from bein too short. We focused our efforts on a small number of pieces, and the resulting performace was well rehersed and interesting, with a wide variety of pieces amoung the three performances (the JA did an evolution of dance song that really stole the show.)

On 12/8, the SA chorus collaborated with the JA and EA choruses for a holiday concert. Beginning with Chrismas Canon, we sang a combined song before breaking into single-chorus performances of two songs each. My favorite momnet in the concert was when we sang "Various Themes on Fa La La," and used confetti cannons to punctuate the ending. The arrangement interspersed fun segments from other songs, such as Blue Danube, into a framework of Deck the Halls.

In March, we went to the Large Group Performance Evaluation to be evaluated on the chorus's performance of two songs, Like a River and The Word Was God. Of the two, my favorite was The Word Was God, because really it was just fun to sing, fast-paced and energetic. Combined with our sight-reading evaluation, the Drew Chorus earned all Superiors on our class-B music and sightreading, a signficant improvement from last year's class-D superiors and excellents.