The results are in... BHS Choir comes home with a score of "1" from the UIL Concert portion!This March, Bastrop High School brought two choirs to UIL for the 1st time since 2005: Mixed Choir (SATB) and Treble Choir (SSA). Our students gave it their all and their hard work paid off! For the first time in Bastrop High School Choir's history, we brought home a score of "1" (superior) from the concert portion of the contest! We are incredibly proud of this achievement and the hard work shown by all of our BHS Choir students at contest this year. Video of the concert portion for both choirs can be found on the Bastrop High School Choir YouTube channel.
Now that UIL is officially over, we move on to the more "relaxed" events of the late spring semester. We have upcoming tours planned with Bastrop MS, IS and some of the local elementary schools to share our spring concert music with younger students and encourage them to stay in choir throughout their academic career! We also have opportunities to prepare for the upcoming school year (2023-24) by electing and installing a new officer board for the choir program. We will also have many fun, engaging activities for the choir students to participate in throughout the last two months of school, so keep an eye out for those events to put on your calendar soon! Our spring concert is Disney-themed, and we just started work on the big final song that is sure to blow you away! Our students will be learning new music for the spring concert while also finding ways to give back to the BHS campus during the last few weeks of school. (Often we accomplish this goal by singing a small informal concert for the front office staff, or writing "Thank You" notes to our most influential teachers). In addition to our spring concert, students will also be preparing for our biggest choir event of the year, the BHS Choir Banquet! This year's banquet will be held in the PAC Black Box to honor our excellent students, reflect on the busy, busy year ahead, and celebrate the graduating seniors! The banquet is a wonderful night where students, families and friends join together to celebrate the past year and say goodbye to the seniors before graduation gets too close! Although the most "serious" and taxing parts of the school year are passed, we at BHS Choirs still have so much work to do before the semester ends! From learning new music to sharing our song with younger singers across the district, the last two months of the spring semester are always a wonderfully fun & busy time of year! Can't wait to share that fun with you at the spring concert and choir banquet in May! Kindly, Ms. Davis LOOKING AHEAD *Unfortunately, there have been some cancellations on the 2022-23 choir calendar for the spring semester. Those events are the Austin Spurs game (cancelled due to scheduling conflict with Spurs office) and the Bastrop County Choral Festival (event will be held semi-annually, not annually; next festival will be spring of 2024). 2023 Choir Banquet - Saturday, May 13th, 2023 at the PAC Black Box [Dinner starts at 6:00 PM; Ceremony starts at 7:00 PM; more details to follow in April/May newsletter] BIS/BMS/BHS Spring Choir Concert - Friday, May 19th, 2023 at the PAC Auditorium [Doors open at 6:30 PM; Concert starts at 7:00 PM]
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