Please consider the following statements which come directly from the NC Standard Course of Study in Music:
Presentation of work is a natural progression in the study of music. Performances are a culmination of the process of studying and/or creating music. Informances, demonstrating the process that students use to arrive at a performance as a result of instruction, are also appropriate at this level. Performing is a learning experience that helps students to define the roles of performers and audience members, teaches students to respond to and critique music appropriately, and helps students to build confidence and pride in their work. Performances also help foster an appreciation of music as an art form and as a form of communication.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Events in italics are optional. Everything else is mandatory attendance for a grade. Updated 9.8.19Note that Honors Chorus is now Girls' Honors, Boys' Honors and combined is Concert Choir.
Aug 30 - Choir Council lunch meeting (OFFICERS ONLY)Sept 4- ALL FORMS DUE FOR A GRADESept 5- NC Honors Chorus audition rehearsal 2:30-4:30 (choir room) OPTIONALSept 11- NC Honors fees due & Ligon auditions during class (choir room)Sept 25- NC Honors Chorus auditions @ Memorial Baptist Church, 271 Leslie Campbell Avenue, Buies Creek, NC 27506 (students will carpool- time tba)Oct 10- All Choirs after school rehearsal 2:30-4:30 (Auditorium) and 4:30-6:30 dinner/study hall (Choir room)Oct 10- Fall "Informance" 6:30pm (Auditorium) Everyone. Wear choir dresses and tuxes w/black shoes, 6th in black pants and borrowed white shirt.Oct 16-21= Krispy Kreme Fundraiser #1Nov 1-18 Krispy Kreme Fundraiser #2Nov 9/10- NC Honors Chorus rehearsals and concert @ Winston-Salem for selected students.Nov 18-20 Musical Tryouts for Fiddler on the Roof (auditorium) after school: look for signupsNov 21 & 22- All 8th graders meet during their homeroom/lunch (6th p.) to rehearse for Gov's Mansion. (choir room) Bring a sack lunch that day. We may include 7th grade this year.Nov 25- Tentative Concert Choir Rehearsal 2:30-4:30 (choir room) for Honors classes only - may cancelDec 2 - Full Choir Rehearsal 2:30-4:30 (stage) - all studentsDec 4 - Small Ensemble Rehearsal 2:30-4:30 (aud) Vocal Ensemble onlyDec 5- Small Ensemble Concert 7pm (Aud) VE only {arrive at 6:30pm in choir room in black dresses}Dec 6- SEC Concert - Vocal Ensemble performs for elementary schools during school day, 10am & noon. Attire is black dresses. Lunch provided in the choir room.Dec 6- Fruit Orders Arrive!! Plan to pick up 2:30-5:00 through the back lot. Parent helpers needed at 1:00 to unload the truck with handtrucks!Dec 9 - VE sings in school-wide Small Ensemble Concert 8am. Wear dresses to school. May change after concert. Dec 10 Crabtree Valley Mall performance at 3pm (select students only-tba)Dec 11- Rehearsal for Large Ensemble 2:30-4:30 (Aud) Concert Choir only (Honors Boys, Girls & Apprentice Choirs)- Dec 12- Large Ensemble Concert 7pm (Aud) Concert Choir only -All Honors Boys & Girls, plus Apprentice Choir. Arrive at 6:30 in the choir room in uniforms and solid black shoes. (6th graders are providing their own black pants or long skirt and will change into their borrowed white shirt at the school.) Concert is 7-8pm. Nobody should leave early. Dec 15- Governor's Mansion Holiday Tour performance by 8th graders at 3pm. Meet in the parking lot at the corner of Jones and Person streets, beside the mansion, Parking is free on Saturdays. Arrive at 2:35pm and be escorted to the back door of the mansion where we will take a pic. Parents may go around front to enter the tour. I understand a photo ID is needed. We sing 3:00-3:45pm and then students will be escorted back to the parking lot. If a parent is inside the mansion, the student will be released to the parent at the end of the concert or at 3:45 outside. Wear choir formal attire.Dec 16- Large Ensemble Concert repeated during school day (Aud) (Honors Boys, Girls plus Apprentice Choirs arrive in formal uniforms and may change after concert)- 8:00amJan 14-27 popcorn fundraiser
Jan 24-25 All-County Chorus @Martin MS (auditioned students only)
February 21-22 Fiddler on the Roof performances
Feb 24 MPA rehearsal 2:30-4:30 in stage all 7th & 8th gr students
Feb 28 Black History Month assembly performance during school
Mar 2 Pre-MPA Concert @Ligon M.S. 7 pm for 7th/ 8th gr students (black dresses, tuxes). Carnage Choirs will join us. Ligon Choirs will meet at 6:15 in the choir room to practice together
Mar 6 MPA Choral and Solo/Ensemble @Campbell University (all 7th/8th singers in black attire) report to the choir room at 7:25 a.m. to load the bus in the back lot. We depart at 7:40 and arrive back to campus around 1 pm.
Mar 16 Recruiting Trip to Elementary Schools during day (Select VE Girls, Honors Girls & Boys only)
Mar 17 Atlanta Parent meeting at 6pm (Chaperones at 5:30pm) Ligon Choir room
Mar 26-29 Atlanta Worldstrides Festival (Honors Girls and Boys, Vocal Ensemble)
Apr 2 Barbershop Quartet guests - in class workshops and reflections
Apr 17/18- All-State Chorus @Greensboro Coliseum (auditioned students only)
May 20 After-school rehearsal #1 @ 2:30-4:45pm ALL STUDENTS
May 21 After-School Rehearsal & Spring Concert @Ligon AUDITORIUM opens at 6:45, concert at 7 PM (all students in jeans, Choir t-shirts & close-toed shoes)
May 22 Choir Awards during class
May 18 Talent Show Auditions (forms available in front office)
June Talent Show Rehearsal and Performance