Conductor’s Corner

The Harding Academy Choral Christmas Concert will held on Monday, Dec. 8th beginning at 7 pm in the auditorium on the Cherry Road campus. All choruses will be performing (8th grade, 9th grade, A cappella). The 7th grade vocal rotation class will not be performing on the concert. All members of these groups are expected to be in attendance for the event. All students are expected to be in their seats or on stage by 6:30 so that we can run warm up and run through any music as needed. Please see your chorus handbook for information about required performance attendance. All groups will be in their concert uniform. That is as follows:

A cappella

Girls - Black chorus dress, Guys - Tuxedo

Freshman Chorus

All will wear black pants, tuxedo shirt, bow tie, cummerbund, black dress shoes - No athletic shoes.

Eighth Grade Chorus

All students will wear the required Harding Academy Uniform.

Girls - White shirt, skirt, white socks, Guys - Khaki pants, White button down shirt, Tie

The Eighth Grade Chorus will perform first, followed by the 9th Grade Chorus, and then A cappella. All students are expected to stay for the entire concert.

If there are any questions, please feel free to email/call as needed.

All SW Clinic - Nov. 20, 21, 22 - Mississippi Blvd Church

Poinsettia Delivery - Cherry Road - Thursday, Nov. 20th

(No Delivery at Cherry Road on the 26th)

Goodman Oaks Church of Christ - Wednesday, Dec. 3rd - 7:00

All State Auditions - Saturday, Dec. 6th - St. Benedict’s - 1:00

(Alleluia and Dixit Maria)

Choral Christmas Concert - Monday, Dec. 8th - Cherry Road - 7:00

Poinsettia Delivery - Monday, Dec. 8th - Cherry Road

Choirs of Christmas Taping - Tuesday, Dec. 9th - WKNO Studios - 2:45

(we will leave from the school)

Carols and Lessons - Friday, Dec. 12th - Chapel - Cherry Road

Peabody and 1st TN Bank - Monday, Dec. 15th - Peabody Hotel/Downtown

The All SW Clinic is this week. Please see the information sheet for details about the clinic. Also, make sure to sign the student contract and return the bottom portion by Wednesday, Nov. 19th. I have included a map to the church. The easiest way to get there is by taking I-240 and getting off at either Madison (coming from the north loop) or Union (coming from the south loop). The church is located between Madison and Jefferson on N. Bellevue. It is the old Bellevue Baptist building.

We will only have a bus available for lunch on Friday. At all the rehearsals, the students will be responsible for transportation to and from the event.

Map to Mississippi Blvd Church

All SW Clinic Information

Due to the Harding football team win on Friday, our performance at Goodman Oaks will be moved to Wednesday, Dec. 3rd. I had already contacted the church to tentatively schedule the date for the 3rd if we needed it. Please use the 25th to support the football team as they play for the championship!

Go Lions Football!

We have two weeks left before the week of Thanksgiving. Right now we are scheduled to sing at Goodman Oaks on Nov. 25th. We have set up an alternate date of Wednesday, Dec. 3rd and will use it as needed. My goal is to use next week as a week to clean up and memorize the songs we will perform for Goodman Oaks and for Christmas. Here is the list of songs for Christmas:

Go Tell it on the Mountain

Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)

The First Nowell

Lux Aurumque

Ding Dong Merrily on High

What Child is This?

Dixit Maria

Carol of the Bells

We will continue our study of Key Signatures and Time Signatures. We will also be working on counting rhythms and continue with our daily sight reading.

This week we will be starting Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming and Jingle Bells. We will continue to spend part of each day working on O Come, O Come Emmanuel in Octets. Remember to work on the weekly memory verse. This weeks verse is from Isaiah 11:1-3. We will take our quiz on Friday.

This week we will be starting more music for our Christmas concert. Each day will have a short sight reading exercise but most of our time will be spent working on the new music. We will also continue to rehearse Jolly Old St. Nick and Up on the Housetop.

We are getting closer each day to our Christmas Concert. So, we will need to discuss the uniform for each performing group. Please see below for your groups uniform information.

Eighth Grade Chorus

Ladies:

The required uniform for Harding Academy is our performance uniform.

Guys:

The required uniform for Harding Academy is our performance uniform. This includes the ties.

Freshman Chorus

All members of the freshman chorus shall wear black dress pants, a tuxedo shirt, bow tie and cummerbund. Mr. Burdette will provide the ties and cummerbunds. All students are required to purchase a white, wing collar tuxedo shirt and their pants.  Both girls and boys will wear the same uniform.

If you have any questions, contact Mr. Burdette.

Since we are nearing the time of our performances, we will need to finish up with our uniform fittings.

Ladies:

The ladies that needed to purchase dresses. Please see Mr. Burdette in order to get your dress. The dresses cost $65.00 and will need to be paid for at the time you pick up the dress. The dresses have arrived and are in the chorus room. You will need to have black shoes. No tall heels.

Men:

All senior guys will need to be measured again for a new tuxedo, as has been tradition. They may not arrive in time for the first performance but you will be getting new tuxedos for this year. Please see Mr. Burdette to get the information about where to be measured. All other guys will be fitted out of our supply of tuxedos. You will need to see Mr. Burdette about setting up a time to be measured. You will need to provide your own tuxedo shirt, black dress shoes, and socks. You will be provided with a jacket, pants, tie, and cummerbund.