Through their participation in choir, students will find delight in singing and making music in community, writing the good, true, and beautiful on their hearts.
Primary Choir (Grades 1-2)
Goals for Primary Choir students include:
- Learn beloved patriotic songs and practice making beautiful harmonies by singing rounds.
- Enjoy rhythm and vocal exercises.
- Become familiar with musical terms, and learn the basics of musical notation.
- Discuss the groups of instruments in the orchestra and learn to recognize individual instruments.
- Prepare students for the more varied and challenging music of Elementary Choir.
Elementary Choir (Grades 3-6)
Goals for Elementary Choir students include:
- To advance an understanding of the rudiments of quality choral singing.
- To facilitate students’ progress in vocal control, observance of musical markings, and the following of the motions of the director.
- To fine-tune students’ ears in order to understand and duplicate musical subtleties such as vowel pronunciation, dynamics, phrasing, and expression.
- To sing in unison, 2, and 3-part harmony with resonant vowels and with a unified sound.
- To expose students to a variety of music within the choral tradition with a focus on the sacred.
- Christmas and Spring Concerts for family and friends.