BHS Choir Students and Parents,
Here is our Newsletter for this week.
Here are a couple quick highlights from it. 

• The Concert is coming up on Thursday, Oct 24. Make sure students have all black clothing.
• Want to see your student on the big screen? Before student music shows at the BFAC, the Batavia Music Buffs runs a video showcasing the magnificent work our music students do each and every year. But we need your help. Follow the instructions in the newsletter to upload your photos from the past year. 
• Varsity Choir students need to turn in a permission slip for our upcoming field trip by October 10. Here is that permission slip. 
• For a full list of concert dates, please see the Newsletter
• For the Choir Syllabus, please see the Newsletter
• For lists of Voice/Piano teachers, please see the Newsletter. 
• For information about Show Choir (nothing new this week), please see the Newsletter. 

Thanks!
Peter Barsch
BHS Choir

Please click here to see the BHS Music Newsletter for the week of 9/16-9/20

Please click here to see the BHS Music Newsletter for the week of Sep 9-13. 

Please click here to see this week's BHS Music Newsletter. 

Hark! Fine lords and ladies of Batavia and faraway lands… 

Thou art summoned to join in the "Festival of Carols" the seventh and eighth of December in the year of our Lord two thousand and eighteen in the decked hall known as Congregational Church of Batavia.  Tickets may be purchased at https://bhsmusic.ludus.com/

In previous years, we have sold out the evening shows, mostly with parents of the performers. While anyone is welcome at any show, we will be making a special push this year to bring community members to join us at the matinee show. The matinee will be a lower ticket price and a shorter running time, as we will not be having any food or intermission. Tickets are general admission. 

For the evening shows, part of the night is held in the sanctuary, where seating is not reserved. The other part of the night is in the "Royal Hall", where seats are reserved. When you purchase your tickets, you will need to select the number of tickets and also which exact seats you want. 

Tickets are on sale now. This email is going out to parents of performing choir students, but we will shortly be posting the link for all community members. 

Let us know if you have any questions!

This week, every class is recording video selfies of one of the songs we are preparing for the concert. We record them all at once, so each student has the entire class still singing along. We record several takes using Screencastify, students choose their best recording, assess themselves using a rubric (See below), and attach it to the assignment in Classroom. 

I love that I get a chance to hear them individually, without them ever having to sing alone! 

Congratulations to our new Chromatics members! 

• Josiah Daneels
• Landon Keller
• Cam Green
• Grant Hibbeler
• Nathen Niznick

They will perform with the group for the first time at our Homecoming pep assembly this week!