We have yet to tackle other songs from the musical that will "contrast" the active and robust songs that we currently know.
A small contingiency came to "Open House" and sang through the "Instruments of the Orchestra" in unison, giving the audience something more to listen to than just the rules of the music classroom!
During that same evening, the Advanced chorus started cutting the rug with a song entitled "Give Me That Spotlight!" This song was done in the manner of a Broadway number with singing AND choreography.
Hopefully there will be some videos posted of each of the those performances.
On the week of August 27-31, the Advanced chorus, had lessons on copyright, 2 part harmony, and on improvement of the "head voice." Our song of study was "Good Morning to you" (otherwise known as the "Happy Birthday Song." We "analyzed" the song in terms of pitch, creating a workable harmony and why it is rare to hear it done on TV or Movies.
We then got to experiment with our new found knowledge and performed the song for our Science teacher "Ms Bittel." (Yes, it was her birthday!) The video is below:
The kids show much promise this year and I am very proud of their efforts!
I will be posting some images of 6th grade chorus work very soon!
