You will perform a variety of music arranged especially for treble voices, including pop, show tunes, madrigals, and barbershop. Membership in Advanced Women's Ensemble will require some weekend and evening time as well. You will be expected to be able to sight sing, sing by yourself, and to demonstrate your technique. Membership in Chorale requires some evening, after school and weekend rehearsal and performance time. Choral Images performs madrigals, pop and show tunes, vocal jazz, to mention a few.
Membership involves a great deal of outside time.
The course will involve group and individual work, using both traditional and computer-assisted instruction. You will study the components of a musical, watch several videos of them, attend several live performances, and have opportunity to participate in a school production, learning about auditions. Stage design, make-up, costuming, technical aspects. Membership in this class will involve rehearsal and performance time outside school. Sight reading and advanced string playing techniques will be studied.