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Boonville —
Boonville Chamber Choir members participated in a district competition on Sept. 10 at Odessa High School.
Eleven students reached district level distinction: sopranos senior Anna Kay and Talia Tsapelas, and junior Kate Stodgel; alto seniors Logan Ashpaugh, Kaitlyn Krumm, Hannah Kelley and Hannah Litwiller; tenor seniors Dylan Colbert and Michael Kelley, bass senior Caleb James and junior Forrest Hage, and district women's choir alto junior Ciera Harmon.
During the competition, students were required to sing a solo for a panel of three judges and then to name key signatures and perform melodic and harmonic sightreading for another judge. The scores from these two events were combined and the students with the highest scores were selected to form the West Central District Choir. Approximately forty students were selected for each voice part.
The West Central District Choir will rehearse and perform on Oct. 8 at Smith Cotton High School in Sedalia. This year's conductor will be Mark Lawley from Springfield. Students selected for the district choir are eligible to audition for the Missouri All-State Choir. This year's audition piece is "Locus iste" by Anton Bruckner and the auditions are adjudicated by another panel of three judges. This score will be combined with the district audition score and the top four students will become a member of the Missouri All-State Choir. To reach All-State is a rigorous step - only the top four students per part (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) are selected.
"We've had students in the Missouri All-State Choir, the Missouri Youth Honor Choir, and the National FFA Choir. Kenney Swope was selected again this year for the National FFA Choir," said Esther Enderle, choir teacher.
Boonville Chamber Choir members participated in a district competition on Sept. 10 at Odessa High School.
Eleven students reached district level distinction: sopranos senior Anna Kay and Talia Tsapelas, and junior Kate Stodgel; alto seniors Logan Ashpaugh, Kaitlyn Krumm, Hannah Kelley and Hannah Litwiller; tenor seniors Dylan Colbert and Michael Kelley, bass senior Caleb James and junior Forrest Hage, and district women's choir alto junior Ciera Harmon.
During the competition, students were required to sing a solo for a panel of three judges and then to name key signatures and perform melodic and harmonic sightreading for another judge. The scores from these two events were combined and the students with the highest scores were selected to form the West Central District Choir. Approximately forty students were selected for each voice part.
The West Central District Choir will rehearse and perform on Oct. 8 at Smith Cotton High School in Sedalia. This year's conductor will be Mark Lawley from Springfield. Students selected for the district choir are eligible to audition for the Missouri All-State Choir. This year's audition piece is "Locus iste" by Anton Bruckner and the auditions are adjudicated by another panel of three judges. This score will be combined with the district audition score and the top four students will become a member of the Missouri All-State Choir. To reach All-State is a rigorous step - only the top four students per part (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) are selected.
"We've had students in the Missouri All-State Choir, the Missouri Youth Honor Choir, and the National FFA Choir. Kenney Swope was selected again this year for the National FFA Choir," said Esther Enderle, choir teacher.
