Junior High Choir
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
Megan Riener
Stockton Schools
201 N. Cypress
Stockton, KS 67669
w: 785-425-6784
Important Dates - JH Choir
Oct. 9, 2025 - Thu
Nomination Deadline — JH Choir
Nov. 8, 2025 - Sat
Mini Convention I
JH Choir, JH Band, HS Jazz Band
Location TBA
$15 participation fee per selected student

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