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Week 4 • 09/19 - 09/23

What are we working?

Here we are in week 4 of the school year. Already we have talked about solfege, notes on the staff, and simple sight-singing. This week we will continue with sight-singing

Also we will continue working on repertoire for our Fall concert on Thursday, Oct. 27th. One piece that all chorus students will need to be familiar with is "Rise" by Katy Perry. We will be singing an arrangement based on the Superfruit version of this song. Click the YouTube video to take a listen.

Congratulations to all of the students who auditioned to represent Martin in the 2016 NC Middle School Honors Chorus Auditions. It was an extremely difficult job choosing the 24 students that will represent Martin because we are fortunate enough to have SO many super talented students.

What's due this week?

Sight Singing Assessment 1
- You will choose 1 piece of music to learn. You will record a video of you singing the piece first on solfege and then on words with solfeging hands. Here are your options (click the title to access the music) :
  - All Through the Night
  - Little Green Frog
  - Boom Boom Ain't It Great to Be Crazy
  - It's Raining It's Pouing
  - Michael Finnegan
- Upload that video to Google drive (use your WCPSS Google access or you may need to have a parent create a gmail account for you)
- Share that video with martingtchorus@gmail.com. (if you aren't sure how to share a video using Google drive, click the YouTube video to the right.)
If you and your parents did not sign up for Remind (text 81010 with the course code @onlyvoice) be sure to get that done this week. This is worth a quiz grade.

What's coming up?

Sept. 29th -- NC Honors Chorus Auditions
Oct. 13th -- NC State Fair Choir Competition (Honors Chorus only)
Oct. 14th -- Triangle Harmony Explosion (Chorus Boys only)

Stay in the Loop -- Sign Up for Remind 101 Updates

This website is a great way to stay current with what's going on with our program. It is updated weekly (usually on Saturday mornings). However for even more current information and up-to-the minute updates, Remind 101 is where its at!. To sign up, click here. Be sure that you do sign up as this is how most chorus communication will be sent. Emails will only be sent when I need to attach a document or send something more formal. For standard teacher-parent communication, we will use Remind.

Need some blank staff paper? Click here!