Chorus is a full year course that offers students the opportunity to study the performance of music through the vocal idiom. Students will study vocal techniques, learn to read music, sight-read, and sing in harmony. Students will perform four major concerts throughout the year in a variety of styles including a Prism Concert and a Pops Concert. Each spring the Chorus also performs at the Massachusetts Instrumental Conductor's Association Choral Festival. The repertoire of the chorus includes various styles including a cappella, gospel, swing, classical, and popular adaptations. Students will be assessed through preparation for class, attendance, and group performance standards. Students are required to attend all after-school rehearsals and specific performances. A calendar for the year is provided to each child. Emphasis is directed at the development of a four voice choir in SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass).
The curriculum is sequential, rigorous, varied, and concept-based.
All students enrolled at the Honors level also perform in a chamber recital either as a soloist or in a small chamber group. The music faculty believes that Chamber Music represents the added rigor of the Honors curriculum, as it stretches each performer to act as a soloist ALL of the time..
All students are encouraged to study voice with a private studio instructor.