April Newsletter
Hello Clements Choir Family!
How is the end of the year upon us? Please look ahead!
Jade Blakey | jade.blakey@fortbendisd.com
Justin Shen | justin.shen@fortbendisd.com
Senior Ad and Well Wishes for Spring Concert Program: Program ads are now available for purchase on Ludus. Deadline is TOMORROW Friday, April 3rd! - click here to buy!
Senior Shoutouts ($20): Upload a high quality picture of your senior and send them an encouraging message! They will take up a half page in the spring concert program.
Well-wishes ($3): Send a member of the choir a short message - embarrassing or not, we will put them in the program! (as long as they are school-appropriate!)
All-State Camp Scholarship, due April 30th: These camps offer an incredible value and are necessary to ensure success throughout the All-State process. Our booster club offers scholarships for students taking part in All-State camps - you can read more information about these scholarships here.
Click here for a list of All-State camps this summer (we will update as more information comes out).
Senior Scholarships, due April 30th: The Booster Club provides at least 2 scholarships to our graduating seniors. The scholarship application is sizable, so get an early start on it!
Booster Club Silent Auction fundraiser on April 28: Do you have gift certificates and/or goodie basket items you'd like to donate? Please fill out this form to contribute items for the auction. All proceeds will go to support the choir program. For more details, contact Kelsey Johnson, Fundraising Chair: chschoir.boosterclubfundraising@gmail.com
Booster Club Meeting | Thursday, April 9th @ Choir Room | Booster Club Members: This is for parents/guardians who want to get involved and be “in-the-know" about what’s happening next. We're gearing up for the end of year concert, Coffee House, UIL, and setting up our officer positions for next year.
Volunteering for the spring: Please sign up to help us out with our events this year! Many hands make light work!
UIL Season by Choir- Please come watch us perform! Scroll through the sign-up genius to be a chaperone! All of our choirs really need some parental support.
Con Brio UIL: Wednesday, April 8th sign-up genius to be a chaperone!
Drop formal uniform off in choir room inside garment bag labeled with your name
Black dress socks, black dress shoes, tux pants, black dress shirt, tux jacket
Go to regular classes 1st-3rd
4th period- go to auditorium (we will roll your uniforms over) and change
10:50 - be in the center section of the seats in your standing arrangement for warm-up
11:20 (A Lunch)- take your stuff to the choir room to lock it away, eat lunch in the choir room
11:55 (B Lunch)- throw trash away, attendance
12:00 - Get on bus to Sugar Land Methodist Church
1:00 - Warm Up
1:20 - Concert
1:40 - Sightread
2:20 - Watch A Cappella/ Cantiamo-3:20 (Leave after Travis HS performs)
3:45 - Board bus with Mega Treble back to CHS
4:00 - Go home!
Sonoro UIL: Wednesday, April 8th sign-up genius to be a chaperone!
Drop formal uniform off in choir room inside garment bag labeled with your name
Black dress socks, black dress shoes, tux pants, black dress shirt, tux jacket
Go to regular classes 1st-4th
11:20 (A Lunch) - eat lunch
11:55 (B Lunch) - Go to auditorium and change-transition to your spot at 12:20. (We will roll your uniforms over for you)
12:25 (C Lunch)- Sit in the seats with ALL of your stuff/Warm-up with Mega Treble
12:40 - Walk to choir room, lock stuff up, walk to bus
12:50 - Bus leaves for Sugar Land Methodist Church
1:20 - Try to watch Con Brio! And Mega Treble
2:20 - Watch A Cappella/ Cantiamo-3:00 (Leave after Fulshear HS performs)
3:15 - Warm-up
3:40 - Concert
4:00 - Sightreading
4:30 - Get on the bus
4:45 - Get your stuff and go home!
A Cappella/Cantiamo “Mega Treble” UIL: Wednesday, April 8th sign-up genius to be a chaperone!
Drop formal uniform off in choir room inside garment bag labeled with your name
Make-up/Hair stuff, dress, character shoes
Go to regular classes 1st-4th
11:20 (A Lunch)- eat lunch
11:55 (B Lunch)- Go to auditorium and change-transition to your spot at 12:20. We will roll your uniforms over for you)
12:25 (C Lunch)- Sit in the seats with ALL of your stuff/Warm-up with Sonoro
12:40 -Walk to choir room, lock stuff up, walk to bus
12:50 - Bus leaves for Sugar Land Methodist
1:20 - Try to watch Con Brio! Back to Great Hall after
1:55 - Warm-up
2:20 - Concert
2:40 - Sightreading
3:45 - Get on bus
4:00 - Go home!
Concert Chorale Tenor Bass UIL: Thursday, April 9th (This is the same date and time as STAAR EOC English II. There will be a make-up date for you communicated soon)
7:30 AM in choir room, dressed in formal uniform, with a change of clothes for school hung inside your garment bag, and an extra pair of dress socks.
Warm-up
8:15 AM on the bus to Sugar Land Methodist Church
8:45 AM watch NV TB choirs, get up after Travis HS
10:15 AM Warm-up
10:40 AM Concert
11:00 AM Sightreading
11:30 AM Get on bus back to CHS
11:45 AM- get back to CHS, change, eat B lunch, choir room C lunch
Hang your garment bag with tuxedo up in the choir room for the next day
Concert Chorale Treble UIL: Thursday, April 9
Drop formal uniform off in the garment bag in the choir room
7th period- come to choir room and change
2:35- on risers for warm-up, take all of your stuff with you
Parents, the students have asked to drive themselves. Please email me if you have any problems with that.
2:45- leave CHS for Sugar Land Methodist
3:00- Arrive
3:00-3:40 Watch some choirs, Leave after EHS
3:55- Warm-up
4:20- Concert
4:40- Sightread
5:00- Finish, pickup from church
Concert Chorale UIL: Friday, April 10th
Drop formal uniform off to the choir room
Come to choir room 4th period for Warm-up and final run through
A Lunch- eat
B Lunch- go to auditorium and change
C Lunch- walk back to choir room, lock up your things, walk to bus
12:30- bus departs
1:00- Watch Hightower, go back to holding room
1:35- Warm-up
2:00- Concert
2:20- Sightread
3:00- Watch George Ranch
3:30- Get on bus
3:45- Get back to CHS, get your stuff, go home!
Choir Officer Applications- due April 16th Are you interested in growing as a leader? Do you want to solve real problems and serve an organization of over 160 people? We need you! Officer applications can be found here.
Senior Angel Box Decorating- April 16th, 3-4pm, Choir room This is a social for students who are working on a box for their senior. Join us for some arts and crafts! Bring a box, but we’ll have a lot of other supplies!
Dallas Trip- April 17th-18th We are so excited to build memories together. Please see the emails to the specific Dallas folks. If you didn’t get it and think you’re, please let me know!
Recording Day- Tentatively April 20th 9am-3:00pm, Concert Chorale Only We are planning a day with Elkins to do one more public performance of our concert repertoire for application to convention purposes. These performances are open to all of our families, but will be during the school day. I will email the schedule out when I have it finalized!
Chamber Choir auditions- April 21st- 22nd: This is for all students who are interested in being in Chamber Choir next year- please see this pagefor more details and be sure to sign-upfor an audition!
Senior Angel Letter Writing- April 24th, 3-4pm, Choir Room Come join us for a little social where we write thoughtful notes to our seniors before the spring concert to go in their boxes! Seniors can join to write each other notes, too. We’ll have paper!
Spring Concert Our venue is currently TBA (don’t worry, we have plans!).
Dress Rehearsal- Monday, April 27th- 3-5pm, (required for all) Schedule is TBA- The goal is to ensure our concert logistics are very smooth for an efficient concert! You don’t need to wear anything specific.
Spring Concert & Silent Auction, Tuesday, April 28th- (Required for all) 7pm start time, early call is TBA (somewhere between 4-5pm start time) Formal uniform required. It is also our teacher appreciation concert, so we will be recognizing our teachers! Students will receive postcards in class as soon as our venue is finalized.
Commonwealth Elementary Performance, Wednesday, April 29th (Chamber only) We will wear our polo and jeans, meet at Commonwealth Elementary at 6pm, sing 2 songs at 6:30pm, listen to their 5 songs, and then close with “Do-Re-Mi!” Should be done in like 30 minutes!
FBISD Fine Arts Senior Excellence, Thursday, April 30th, DHS auditorium, 6pm Kallin Wheatley has been selected as the district’s representative of excellence in choir! He will be performing during the awards ceremony where we recognize our music majors, scholarship recipients, and celebrate all the cool things fine arts students are doing! You will get a personal invitation to this if you are expected to attend as an attendee. Otherwise, you can just show up and support! Attendees, you can arrive by 5:15 for some light refreshments.
Ice Cream Social, Friday, May 1st 3-4pm, Courtyard/Choir Room (pending weather) A Social open for all to celebrate the end of a great formal concert season! Come eat ice cream!
Coffee House Auditions, May 7th & 8th, Choir Room Audition sign-up will come out later. Coffee House is scheduled for May 15th with a dress rehearsal on May 14th. Audition expectations are:
Song length is 2 minutes (+/- :10)
Subject is school-appropriate (change words if needed)
Upbeat songs are strongly preferred
Students may only audition for 1 solo/duet/trio. Larger groups are ok.
You should wear your “costume” so we can approve that
Track needs to be uploaded prior to your audition
Some basic staging is needed. Stage presence is a part of the assessment!
Upcoming Events:
Uniform Return (during class), May 12
Coffee House Dress Rehearsal, May 14
Coffee House, May 15
Choir Banquet, May 19
Thank you! -Mrs. Blakey & Mr. Shen