Auditions for the 2019-2020 school year will take place on select dates beginning May 29 through June 6 from 3-6 p.m. in the JMB Choir Room (A127). Auditions are open to incoming students in grades 9-12 for both Honors Choirs - Concert Choir & Women's Ensemble. Click the link above from more information.
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The JMB Choirs would like to congratulate the SIX (6) students selected for this year's All Shore Chorus to perform in April. Students spent several weeks preparing for auditions which were held on Saturday, February 9. The audition consisted of two performance selections - one accompanied and one a cappella, as well as a sight reading portion of several rhythmic and melodic examples. Students were scored on their rhythmic accuracy, intonation, phrasing, diction, breath support, dynamics, overall tone quality and vocal maturity.
Congratulations go out to: Ayden Harris (Concert Choir - Soprano II), Kara Fykes (Women's Ensemble - Alto), Alexander Miller (Concert Choir - Tenor), and Joshua Harman, Dorien Slemons and Treyce Wilson (Concert Choir - Bass). CHOIR FORMS DUE DATES:
Choir Contract - Due Friday, September 14 Media Release Agreement - Due Friday, September 14 Medical Form (Honor Choirs Only) - Due Friday, September 14 CHOIR FEE DUE DATE: Choir Fee - Due Friday, October 5 HONOR CHOIRS FUNDRAISER DUE DATE: Mum Fundraiser - Due Wednesday, September 26 The James M. Bennett Concert Choir will hold open auditions beginning Monday, May 21st and ending Friday, May 25th, starting at 3:00 p.m. in the JMB Choir Room. Please stop by the Choir Room (A127) to sign up for your audition time slot. The necessary forms are available on the "audition" page of the JMB Choirs web site or from the director. Email [email protected] with questions.
The James M. Bennett High Intermediate and Concert Choirs will present a spring program entitled "Bernstein at 100: A Centennial Tribute to the music of Leonard Bernstein” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16 in the James M. Bennett Auditorium. The program highlights Bernstein's choral music with performances from "Wonderful Town", "Westside Story" and "Candide". The JMB Concert Choir will also reprise its performance from the 2018 District Choral Festival. Free. 410-677-5141
The James M. Bennett High School Choral Department will present “A Hip Holiday!” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 12 in the James M. Bennett High School Auditorium. The performance is a tribute to the jazz influenced holiday pop music composed in the 1930s and '40s, which continued to influence the holiday music industry for decades and are still popular today. The evening will begin with selections from the Intermediate Choir including "Holiday", "Light the Menorah" and a medley of familiar carols. The Concert Choir will perform a variety of jazz arrangements to include "Cool Yule" in the style of Louis Armstrong, "You're All I Want for Christmas" as performed by Bing Crosby, and "Linus and Lucy" from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Other traditional selections arranged with a jazz influence include "Silent Night" in German as performed by New York Voices, "We Three Kings" featuring our tenors and basses, and "Coventry Carol" a traditional English carol dating from the 16th century. The evening will conclude by combining more than 100 voices to perform a choral arrangement of “Sleigh Ride” true to the original winter pop classic by Leroy Anderson. Admission is free and open to the public. 410-677-5141
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AuthorMegan Centineo is the Director of Choirs at James M. Bennett High School in Salisbury, MD. Archives
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