Rebuilding your Choir for 2021-2022-Part Two

Today, I sent this email to every music teacher and counselor of every feeder school for my middle school. I individualized the letter rather than send it in a large group. I also sent it to all of the counselors at my school plus the two AP's who are involved with rising 6th graders:

Happy New Year!

I hope you are doing well and staying safe and navigating the world of online teaching/learning.

I am working hard to make sure that as many students as possible will sign up for chorus for the 2021-2022 school year because I want to rebuild and give as many students as possible the experiences they deserve and have missed out on during the pandemic. No audition is required to be in chorus. The only requirement is that they sign up and have the desire to learn.

To help expose elementary students who are headed to middle school to some information about what the Henderson Middle School chorus experience is all about and will be all about as soon as it is safe, could you please consider sharing some videos with your students and community members as a part of my recruitment efforts? I would be very grateful. Next year will be a rebuilding year, and I want to hit the ground running.

These videos are ones that we’ve made over the last several years for fun and some of the videos are performance videos that give a good idea about what we work on in chorus at HMS. All of the videos “star” the HMS students who are in chorus.

Auditioning for the HMS Chorus Musical Revue:

https://youtu.be/VxQVatlG7p8

To do’s and not to do’s of HMS Chorus:

https://youtu.be/0cX8CydvThY

Performance of “The World Will Know” (All HMS Chorus Members)

https://youtu.be/hVtGZPwUmnk

Performance of “Light the Candles All Around the World” December 2019 (all chorus members)

https://youtu.be/Im1vy4SJV9k

Final performance of 8th grade before the shutdown March 2020:

https://youtu.be/Lrr6c6FeYeg

If you have any questions, please reach back to me.

Thank you for your help!