Announcements:
The Nutcracker opens Thursday and runs through Saturday - it is free and open to the public.
The chorus is having a Spirit Night Tomorrow! Dec 13 at Freddy’s from 5-8. Plan to eat dinner at Freddy’s next Tuesday night. The flier is on the website and was sent out in an email and a remind text.
Men Participating in Men’s Invitational- please come get your music after announcements.
Your numbers are:
Jack- 1
Graham- 2
Alexander- 13
Kyle- 15
Rian- 16
Mac- 17
Michael- 6
Christian- 20
Make sure you don't lose your music :)
There is tutorial help available today at lunch in the chorus room as well as Thursday & Friday
Phantom cast - we have rehearsal today 2:30-5 in chorus room. See calendar for who are called
If you have not paid for your concert attire or fully fundraised your concert attire, please pay the difference by Today.
CV- Trip Deposit is past due please turn in $200
Mrs. Patchett announces missing music
Mrs. Patchett passes out purchased pictures
Turned in music theory homework today. If you didn't do it, turn it in tomorrow!
Rehearsal:
Today we sat in a circle and had a class reflection. I think it went great :)
Sight Reading: none :)
Homework: none :)
Announcements:
The Band Concert is 7 pm this Friday
The Nutcracker opens Thursday and runs through Saturday - it is free and open to the public.
Mrs. Patchett and the librarians need help getting music organized- if you can stay after school Thursday or Friday -please see Mrs. Patchett at the end of class.
The chorus is having a Spirit Night on Tuesday Dec 13 at Freddy’s from 5-8. Plan to eat dinner at Freddy’s next Tuesday night.
If you have not paid for your concert attire or fully fundraised your concert attire, please pay the difference by Dec. 12.
Lowes Food - If your family would like to purchase Lowes Food Gift Cards please turn in money by Friday Dec 9. This is a great opportunity to provide money for your student account and purchase christmas gifts for family and friends!
If your family donated a poinsettia, please pick it up. It is in the back window of the chorus room
CV- Trip Deposit was Due last week $200
All State Auditions will be today Dec 6 B Lunch & Thursday Dec 8 All Lunch. See Website for more details
CV - Your field trip form for the middle school was over a week ago if you have them today please turn them in
Make sure you grabbed a pass for leaving your first period class early tomorrow morning. Please don't lose it.
Wear your chorus t shirt from this year (the blue one) and jeans tomorrow for our middle school performance. Bring a jacket for walking to and from the middle school.
Meet in front of town hall at 6:45 Friday night. However it is you need to stay warm, stay warm. Don't wear a ratty hoodie. Keep it classy please :)
On Saturday, we'll meet in that larking lot in downtown Raleigh discussed earlier. If you need a ride, send a message to the group chat.
Rehearsal:
MLK
-worked on section C
-at "so let it", tenor twos go higher than tenor ones. Don't let this catch you of guard
-ran through section B too
-have a big "k" consanant on "cloud"
-accent "thunder"
Music Down In My Soul
-make sure you go to the second ending the second time around
We walked around the school and SACF in different locations to get a better understanding of the spaces we'll be performing in these next couple of days
Sight Reading: none :)
Homework:
-learn the first two pages of MLK
-learn pages six and seven for Music Down In My Soul
-on musictheory.net, do 50 chord ID pertinence, print the progress report with your name and roll call number. In the settings turn on all key signatures, inversions off, 7th chords off, only have major, minor, augmented, and diminished on.
Announcements:
The Band Concert is 7 pm this Friday
The Nutcracker opens Thursday and runs through Saturday - it is free and open to the public.
Mrs. Patchett and the librarians need help getting music organized- if you can stay after school Thursday or Friday -please see Mrs. Patchett at the end of class.
The chorus is having a Spirit Night on Tuesday Dec 13 at Freddy’s from 5-8. Plan to eat dinner at Freddy’s next Tuesday night.
If you have not paid for your concert attire or fully fundraised your concert attire, please pay the difference by Dec. 12.
Lowes Food - If your family would like to purchase Lowes Food Gift Cards please turn in money by Friday Dec 9. This is a great opportunity to provide money for your student account and purchase christmas gifts for family and friends!
If your family donated a poinsettia, please pick it up. It is in the back window of the chorus room
CV- Trip Deposit was Due last week $200
All State Auditions will be today Dec 6 B Lunch & Thursday Dec 8 All Lunch. See Website for more details
CV - Your field trip form for the middle school was over a week ago if you have them today please turn them in.
For Friday night's performance, wear concert attire and a nice coat (no ratty hoodies, keep it classy). The performance should be over around 8:15.
On Saturday, we'll be singing inside, but will be waking from location to location outdoors, so bring a coat to keep warm.
On December 19th we've been invited to join ITS for an ugly sweater party in the auditorium all of lunch, it should be a lot of fun!
Rehearsal:
Did some TaVaKiRiDaMa exercises.
MLK
-working on part B
-there's no real time signature, so write in bar lines and/or counts for where you think it makes sense to help you read it better
-tomorrow, know section C
Music Down In My Soul
-clarified notes with each section
-basses, measure eight and nine are slightly different from each other
-know pages four and five through the second ending. Anticipate having a singing quiz on this tomorrow.
Lo How A Rose
-clarified the text and ran through the piece
Joy to the World
-reviewed bass line notes
-this will most likely be the song we sing as the tree is lighting Friday night
-as you crescendo, make your vowels taller and don't push the sound from your throat
Carol of the Bells
-reviewed men's pitches in the section right before "Love"
-take the R's out of "merry", "treasure", and "measure"
Cold and Fugue
-went over notes
-ran through the whole piece
Sight Reading: none :)
Homework:
-know section C of MLK
-know pages four and five of Music Down In My Soul
-complete the music theory work sheet you got in class
Announcements:
The Band Concert is 7 pm this Friday
The Nutcracker opens Thursday and runs through Saturday - it is free and open to the public.
Mrs. Patchett and the librarians need help getting music organized- if you can stay after school today, Thursday or Friday -please see Mrs. Patchett at the end of class.
Cast members of Phantom all are called today. Be in the chorus room at 2:30.
If you left your items for Cold & Fugue, please go through the items and pick up your items. This is the last day before they go to lost and found.
If your family donated a poinsettia, please pick it up. It is in the back window of the chorus room
CV- Trip Deposit was Due last week $200
All State Auditions will be today Dec 6 B Lunch & Thursday Dec 8 All Lunch. See Website for more details
CV - Your field trip form for the middle school was over a week ago if you have them today please turn them in.
Rehearsal:
We got music for singing with Millikan- MLK and Music Down in My Soul.
We finished up our convert reflections today and turned them in. If you need the sheet and/or video of the concert, look at the website under CV.
Sight Reading: none :)
Homework:
Music Down in My Soul
-know through the end of page three.
-women, if it splits into three parts, soprano twos take the middle note, all altos take the lower note, and soprano ones take the top note. Of it splits into four, do the normal four part spilt.
-men, if it splits into three parts, bass ones take the middle note, bass twos take the lower note, and all tenors sing the top note.
MLK
-Focus on section B, page three
-where it says tenor two, all of the men will sing. Same split for this piece, bass ones take the middle note, bass twos take the lower note, and all tenors take the top note.
The reflection of or concert was due in class today.
Announcements:
Band Concert is 7 pm this Friday
4 students were selected for Wingate Select Choir - Congratulations to: Kaylse Connor, Cameryn Bost, Ben Edwards & Luca Hurst. Congrats! :)
Cast members of Phantom all are called today. Be in the chorus room at 2:30.
If you left your items for Cold & Fugue, please go through the items and pick up your items.
If your family donated a poinsettia, please pick it up
CV- Trip Deposit was Due last week $200
All State Auditions will be tomorrow Dec 6 B Lunch & Thursday Dec 8 All Lunch. See Website for more details
CV - Your field trip form for the middle school was over a week ago if you have them today please turn them in
In the future we'll be working on aural skills (ability to hear and wrote down melodies, great and write down intervals, etc), and more music theory.
CV- We're doing a white elephant the last day before break (it's a Wednesday), bring in a gag gift for some holiday fun!
At the Friday school performance, you need to be in jeans and this year's blue chorus T-shirt (short or long sleeved)
The night performance Friday is outside, wear a nice coat and/or scarf over your concert attire (preferably black, white, green, or red). We'll meet at 6:45 in front of town hall. We'll sing our a cappella music.
For Saturday's performance, it's inside but you'll want a coat for asking to and from locations. We'll have to go through security at the governor's mansion. If you bring water with you to the capital building, you'll have to leave it with security.
Rehearsal:
Today we turned in all our music and began our reflection of the winter concert. We didn't finish it yet though, we'll finish it tomorrow. The sheet and video of the performance should be on the chorus website under CV. Questions A though D person specifically to CV, but E can be about any piece preformed. The sheet will be collected tomorrow at the end of class.
Sight Reading: none :)
Homework: none :)
