Choir

Being part of a choir enhances a young person’s quality of life.  It provides creative, emotional, and social opportunities and can also lead to improvements in academic performance and in other areas beyond music. 

Singers will learn to sing with correct vocal technique, posture and intonation, as well as sing with confidence in unison and two parts.  They will sing a varied repertoire of music including Pop, Classical, Jazz, and Contemporary.  This will also include music of other eras, cultures and languages.  Singers will learn to read the language of music, which engages all parts of the brain.  This includes sight-singing, melodic and rhythmic reading.  Being a member of a choir will allow singers to learn many valuable cooperation and teamwork skills that are unique to the choral experience. 

There will be minimal homework in choir.  There are rhythm quizzes, voice tests and written tests.  Grades are based on concert performance participation as well as organizational contest participation.  Grades are also based on class participation, class behavior, written tests, quizzes and singing tests.  (Singing alone for a grade is very rare.  Usually group singing is done as the teacher evaluates singing voices.)