Junior High Choir
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Membership Requirement
For a student to participate in KMEA honor groups the sponsoring teacher must be an active member of the Kansas Music Educators Association.

Junior High Choir

2024-25

Clinician
Gabe Lewis O'Connor, Lawerence Children's Choir

Deadline for Entries
  • Nominations must be entered online by Oct. 3, 2024.
  • No entries will be accepted after the deadline.
  • Students nominated for JH Choir may also audition for JH Band.
    • If a student is accepted into the JH Band you may send an alternate.
    • Please send me the entry information for the alternate ASAP.
Entry Information
  • Only 7th and 8th grade students are eligible. JH Choir participants are selected by teacher recommendation.
  • Nominations should be an equal number of sopranos, altos, and T/B, or as close to equal as possible (example: 2 sop, 2 alto, 2 T/B). Directors are encouraged to devise their own audition process to determine ranking and to determine who is deserving of this honor.
  • Fill out the nomination form in the KMEA Members site when it is available.
  • Please rank your students and include their year in school.
  • Fill out all necessary information (Please note that we are asking for student height in inches. This will be used for assigned seating and riser order.)
  • Nomination deadline is midnight Oct. 3, 2024 (Central Time). No entries will be accepted after the deadline.
Participation Fee
  • $15 per student.
  • Due at the Nov. 2, 2024 mini-convention.
  • Purchase Orders will not be accepted.
  • Make checks to: NWKMEA
  • Fee doubles if not paid by Nov. 2, 2024.
NWKMEA Mini-Convention I
  • Nov. 2, 2024 @ Hays High School
  • Rehearsals begin at 8:30 AM
  • Concert is at 3:30 PM in Gym A
  • $5.00 admission
Rehearsal/Concert Attire
  • Rehearsal dress is casual/school clothes.
  • Concert dress - we want the students to look nice for this special event. No jeans, t-shirts, or flip-flops. Students are to dress-up for the concert.

Performance Repertoire

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Dan Davison
SAB
From 2012 NWKMEA JH Honor Choir selections

Ad Astra (To the Stars...)
Jake Narverud
Three part mixed
UPC: 680160908264
Publisher ID: CM9544

The Old Mill
Kenneth Riggs
SAB
UPC: 749193023297
Publisher ID: CGE90

Resilience
Abbie Betinis
Free PDF of Resilience by Abbie Betinis from the Justice Choir Songbook
Written at three treble lines
  • Time #1 - All voices sing line 1 in a comfortable octave
  • Time #2 - Lower treble voices (altos) repeat line 1, higher treble voices (sopranos) add line 2, low voices (tenor/bass) don't sing
  • Time #3- Altos - sing line 1, Sopranos - sing line 2, Bass clef voices - sing line 3 down one octave (sing large notes, not small notes)
Alleluia Madrigal
Donald Moore
Three part mixed
UPC: 038081210926
Publisher ID: 21699

Projected Concert Order
Resilience
The Old Mill
Alleluia Madrigal
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Ad Astra (To the Stars...)
  • Each student must have their own music. NO PHOTOCOPIES.
  • Teachers please help your students come well prepared so they can benefit most from the clinician.
  • Please have the notes, music and rhythm learned when they arrive
  • Please try to have as much music memorized as you can so that students will not need to use music in the performance.
 
Chairperson
Annie Adams
Kensington-Thunder Ridge
PO Box 188
Kensington, KS 66951
w: 785-476-2217
Important Dates - JH Choir
Oct. 3, 2024 - Thu
Nomination Deadline — JH Choir
Nov. 2, 2024 - Sat
Mini Convention I
JH Choir, JH Band, HS Jazz Band
Hays HS
$15 participation fee per selected student
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