Reflection Of Treble Choir

Band camp began two weeks before the school year started. The director mailed all the band members the music they were required to learn. However, I ignored the mail and didn’t bother touching my trumpet or learning the music. I dreaded going to band camp the entire summer, but the day finally arrived when I was forced to go. My parents dropped me off at Niwot, I walked into the school, and lethargically headed straight to the band

This past fall, I was given the opportunity to audition for VA district 13's district chorus. As a member of the FUMA choir, I saw this as a breath of fresh air. Our choir is ok, but it has its strengths and weaknesses. Passing the audition would be easy, a short song and sight reading, I mean, it's not rocket science. Passing the audition with flying colors, I had about two months to prepare the chosen songs. (Learning a part solely by piano can be a long and tedious process, but thankfully we were provided practice recordings of our parts.) With only two months to learn my part, I hit the ground running listening to the mp3s whenever I had a chance to.

Brea Heneveld is a freshman at Grace Bible College studying elementary education with a focus in mathematics and reading. She grew up in the small farming town of Hamilton, Michigan. Before heading to Grace, Brea attended Hamilton High School where she graduated the top 25 out of 200 students. While in high school she played basketball her freshman and sophomore year, was in choir all four years, eventually making into Hamilton’s top choir her junior year, and performed in two productions her senior year. She currently is employed at Cracker Barrel in Grandville and also The Good Earth Café in Holland. Music is a big part of her life and has been singing in front of groups ever since she can remember. She surrounded herself with friends who

Growing up in a kindred community surrounded by cows and cornfields certainly has its stereotypes. And though I love my small town of like-minded individuals, I find that the need for diversity is growing exponentially. However, an emissary of light through the past several years has been my choir director, Jay Althouse. After being his student for six years I am proud to say that he has profoundly impacted my way of thinking and shown myself and many students that we should embrace our differences. When introduced to Mr. Althouse as a shy 12-year-old entering 7th grade, I would have never thought we would build such a strong relationship considering our very different backgrounds.

The youth choir has not only had a large impact on me, but everyone involved. Thank you for changing me for

Every holiday Dayon looked forward to conducting a small production at her grandmother’s house, which involved a lot of singing. Her family applauded and cheered them on as she directed the younger generation to produce a memorable performance. As time passed, she became a member of the church choir, then the school choir, leading her to become a member of the church praise team. Through commitment and dedication, she became one of the lead singers during Sunday morning worship services. Leading worship involved Dayon gathering songs, communing with God, and preparing the team for song ministry. During praise and worship, Dayon was vocal in her passion to lead people into the presence of God. Dayon was naturally a quiet person in other settings, which made her aware that God was the true leader in as she led the congregation to express their praise physically and spiritually without fear.

Treblinka, 1941 - one of the events in history during the Holocaust that will never be forgotten by the Jews. It is one of those moments where Jews come together in the hardest of times to create, in a sense, peace amongst themselves. Not only did the Holocaust affect the Jews physically and mentally at the time, but it also greatly impacted their lives after the horror. Some victims of the Holocaust, the worst atrocity committed in humankind’s history, find it extremely difficult to open up and talk about their past because they don't want to remember any part of it. However, most survivors choose to share their stories with the younger generation in order to pass them onto future ones. Despite the torture and cruelty that the survivors

American music teachers need to understand and meet the needs of their Latino/a students, and Palkki (2015) researches approaches that would aid music educators, specifically high school choir directors, in reaching and serving this population in his article “If it fits into their Culture, then they will have a Connection: experiences of two Latina students in a select high school choir.” Palkki (2015) presents a qualitative case study regarding two Latina students in which Palkki (2015) seeks to learn about their choral experiences and thereby discover avenues to improve choral teaching methods. A literature review is presented and after this the case study of these two students was explained

I have been to many different musical performances throughout my life, and have performed in about as many as well. These performances range in purpose and technique from a Native American powwow intended to unify people of different tribes, to professional a cappella groups performing in front of large audiences for entertainment. No matter what culture presents music or what genre it belongs to, something can be learned from a performance. One specific musical performance that I would like to analyze is the Uintah High School choral concert titled “Couch Potato 2,” which took place in Vernal, Utah, on February 23, 2017. This concert, “Couch Potato 2,” is a perfect example of a community performance designed to engage the crowd as well as the performers.

Rehearsal was starting soon, everyone was coming in, milling around, sitting down in the chairs in the theater, and the subject was sitting in a group of 5-8 middle children and early adolescents who were all standing and sitting around, and sometimes coming and going. All of the children in this group were female. They were talking about their hairstyles for the show, and then later on of the girls started talking about animals. Occasionally, the subject would throw in her two cents about something. A peer sitting diagonally across from the subject took out a sketchbook, and some of the other early adolescent girls were looking on and laughing while she talked about it and showed it off. The subject looked on, laughing and smiling,

Being a part of that group gave me the opportunity to challenge myself with more difficult music, and the greater the vocal obstacle, the more I thrived. My choir teacher, Ms. Tippett, took notice of my passion for music and urged me to pursue it further. She pushed me to audition for choral festivals, urged me to try out for the school musical, gave me new responsibilities within the choir, and always knew I could accomplish whatever task she handed me. She nurtured my unending love of all things music and made me see that I really could do this, I could really follow music for the rest of my life. Music shaped me into the confident young woman I am today, and I can’t even begin to imagine how miserable my life would be if I pushed it to the sidelines.

Junior Anna Stillman said she thinks it’s awesome to have so many girls in the choir and they are starting to sing very well as a group, although at times it is hard to have a good balance of sound with so many voices at one time.

The choir only meets on Fridays due to tremendous scheduling difficulties at GRCMS. After one year of this Friday choir, it became apparent that typical concert performances would not suit the choir. This fall (2016) it was converted into Chapel Choir. The “chapel performances only” aspect was an effort to structure the choir more like a church choir. This format fit well with the goal of creating lifelong musicians, as church choirs might be the only choir many students experience into adulthood. This fall, I also gave students weekly homework in an effort to make students more comfortable when it came time to

She tells how to recruit for a school primary choir, grades 1- 3. In September she has the 2nd and 3rd graders sing familiar songs alone or with a friend. She then hands out letters to all the third graders, and half of the second graders. First graders are not in the music classroom until after Christmas. She wants about 55 voices in this choir. She then sends a letter home to the parents containing information on the time and place for rehearsals and programs, requested information on the child, concerts, uniforms, and the rules. (p. 35) A seating plan and the way the chairs are set up are two of the physical factors that help make a good choir rehearsal. She advises to have a seating plan that organizes the children by height, voice and conduct; putting the ones that ’apt’ to misbehave with those that

Falsettos, a musical written by William Finn in the 1980’s, is the story an unorthodox and highly dysfunctional Jewish family living in New York at the end of the 1970’s. At the center of the show is a confused middle aged man named Marvin, who introduced us to his ex-wife Trina and current lover Whizzer along with his precocious 10-year-old son Jason. Throughout the course of the show many different issues plague the family like the new family format, gay rights and the AIDS crisis that when the show debut in 1992 were considered controversial. When the show as revived in 2016, it examined these issues in a different light and brought forth a new way of understanding.