Grace Kasberg
Concert choir scored all ones at competition with songs that were sung in multiple different languages such as Chinese, Latin, French, and Hungarian.
“I had a good feeling that we were gonna score well,” Morgan Anders said. “We have put in so many months of hard work and I was very excited to see if our work would pay off.”
The boys choir performed the Chinese and Latin piece. As a mixed choir, the girls also performed a Latin piece, as well as a Hungarian piece.
“I was a little worried about the songs pretty much all being in different languages,” sophomore Asher Shelburne said. “I definitely had to put a lot of effort into getting them all down, especially because I don’t speak any of them fluently.”
Not only did they have to practice during school hours, the choir had to have many after school practices as well.
“We had sectionals three times a week and had to come after school on Mondays as well,” sophomore Carrie Mercer said. “Even though practicing so much can be frustrating, I knew the outcome was going to pay off for everyone.”
According to Mercer, the choir hasn’t had a varsity treble nor a varsity tenor bass in about five years. This year there was a change, for they added those to this year’s choir.
“Having a new addition like that definitely made us struggle a little,” Mercer said. “With the treble and tenor bass we had to practice as a full choir a lot more rather than just our sections alone.”
Along with the six songs, the choir also had to be graded on their sight reading. They had all ones on both sight reading and their pieces.
“Sight reading is when we get handed a piece of music that we’ve never sang or heard before and we have a certain amount of minutes to get it explained and worked through,” Anders said. “After the time is up we then have to perform and be judged on that piece of music.”
According to sophomore Kaitlyn Johnson the choir was not surprised by these scores, but just overall impressed.
“Before we went to competition our choir was already ranked on a superior excellent fair core scale, so I was pretty confident going into it,” Johnson said. “Even though I had high hopes, I was still nervous to see if we could do it, but I’m super proud of myself and everyone else who put all the work in.”
