The groups also participated in various clinics and coachings in addition to enjoying Broadway shows and sight seeing!
The choirs traveled to New York City in 20 where they performed at Carnegie Hall and at The Cathedral of St. The Evergreen HS choirs travel every other year. In 2019, we had 7 students selected from Evergreen HS. Students are selected through a rigorous audition process. The EHS choirs have performed at numerous festivals over the years including the Jeffco Treble Choir Festival, the University of Colorado-Boulder's Madrigal Festival, CHSAA, Metropolitan State University Choral Celebration and others.Įach year EHS Choir has students selected for the Colorado All State Choir. The Evergreen High School choirs perform a variety of choral repertoire throughout the Evergreen community and beyond. The findings in this study can serve as a resource for choral educators in the vital and ongoing task of repertoire selection that continually occurs in an ever-changing and evolving rich choral heritage.Welcome to the Evergreen High School Choirs website! Evergreen HS is located in beautiful Evergreen, CO, just 40 minutes west of Denver in the foothills. In the process of repertoire selection, choral educators need to reconcile the idea of honoring the heritage of past traditions while also incorporating new practices that embrace contemporary composition in a globally connected diverse twenty- first century. The data suggests a continued interest in some traditions of past choral repertoire while also indicating an increasing, albeit limited, interest in diverse choral repertoire from around the world. While only 10.80% of the selections programmed were performed within three years of publication, there was a trend upward in utilizing recently composed/published music. Across 40 years, there were upward trends in the use of Late Contemporary, World Music, Spirituals/Gospel, Folk Songs/Hymns, and Jazz/Pop/Show, as well as an increase in the number of languages in the repertoire that was performed. The most frequent language performed was English. The Evergreen High School choirs perform a variety of choral repertoire throughout the Evergreen community and beyond. The Accompaniment Status used most often was A Cappella. The content analysis findings revealed that the two most frequently selected Style Categories across the four decades were Late Contemporary and Medieval/Renaissance. This study is a content analysis of the trends regarding what was performed across the four decades under investigation. The purpose of this study was to examine trends in choral repertoire performed by selected high school mixed choirs at the ACDA Eastern Division Conferences from 1978 to 2016. Missing from the related body of choral literature studies is a study that specifically examines the repertoire of high school mixed choirs of excellence, such as choirs chosen to perform at ACDA conferences. The American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division Conferences provide a platform where selected high school choirs perform repertoire in concert that is considered a model of excellence.
Aus der Tiefe (BWV 131) Herscher des Himmels, erhre das Lallen (BWV 248-3, mvt. Pierre-Louis Dietsch Ave Maria Augustinas, Vaclovas Tykus Tykus Bach, J.S. High school choir directors searching for outstanding musical material, as the vehicle for educating their choirs, need resources that identify repertoire of choirs of excellence and a thorough analysis of said literature. Ames, Roger Choral Reflections on Amazing Grace Wzlobie Lezy Arcadelt, Jacob, arr. and middle school music program but what really makes the EHS choirs special are. The music that is selected by the choir director is of the utmost importance and directly effects the musical success of the students. More than 500 students sing in the Edina High School Choral program. Description The cornerstone of all choral music ensembles is the content that the choir is performing: the repertoire.