Concerts
All
Concerts on the schedule are REQUIRED.
Clean up –
Each student will receive a job for Clean Up after a concert event. This will
be a grade. Students who fail to complete the assignment will be given a
failing grade. Students who cannot stay
after the event need to fill out a Reason of Absence Form two weeks prior to
the event.
Concert Etiquette
Every member of the choir
must sing, focus, and pronounce together. Any movement, wandering gazes,
giggling, laughing, elbowing those around you, looking at other choir members,
or acknowledging people in the audience, takes attention away from the choral
group.
1. Enter
the stage, looking straight ahead, arms at sides watching your step.
2. Do not talk,
gaze around the room, or acknowledge anyone in the audience in any way when in place.
3. Keep
your hands at your sides while performing.
4.
Resist the urge to adjust glasses, flip hair, scratch your nose, etc.
5. Focus
on the director.
6. Do
not respond to movement in the audience.
7. Do not
talk or lose your focus between songs, when the audience is applauding.
8. Walk
off quietly when the performance is completed.
9. The
audience can still hear you, even if you are offstage.
10. Listen to others
when they are performing.
11. Do not ridicule,
discredit, or criticize other student’s performances.
12. When you distract
the performance of others, you are being a disruption.
13. Do not leave
during a concert.
14. Encourage other
performers even if you did not like what they had to offer, find something good
in what they did and praise them for it.
**15. All students will
now sit in the auditorium during concerts.
Students will be directed by a designated stage manager parent when they
are able to go to the warm-up room before their performance. Students will then be routed to the stage for
the performance by the designated stage manager parent. There will be no
students backstage unless they are about to perform.
16. In a concert, it is
not choir against choir or performer against performer. It is a number of
fellow musicians striving to improve, and fulfill their potential. We are all a TEAM!!!
