Carl Davis- President, Alabama Vocal Association that is quite usable.
There was nothing We just enjoyed a
superb winter conference reconnecting with each other, sharing information, and attending sessions and concerts. We certainly seek your feedback concerning the move of the concert venue for choral performances to the ballroom from the Performing Arts Center Auditorium. The move afforded us the opportunity to enjoy a two-hour concert block to which some of us affiliated with ACDA are accustomed. I think that the Honor Choir strained the capabilities of the room; however, we will not have to be concerned with such a large ensemble next year.
I appreciated my interaction with Dr. Jeffrey Benson. I think over the past three years we have certainly gained collaboration with some of our very finest in the profession— Dr. Chris Aspaas, Dr. Tucker Biddlecombe, and Dr. Jeffrey Benson.
Dr. Benson, I
hope, has offered us an opened door to some future association—either at an All-State festival or honor choir. I thought his reading session addressed content for various levels
2016 All-State Festival Schedule (All Ensembles on SAMFORD CAMPUS)
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 11:00 AM Board Meeting, Wright Center Basement 2:45 PM 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
Female OCS Competition, Brock Recital Hall OCS/OA – Picture, Brock Recital Hall
Male OCS Competition, Brock Recital Hall OA Competition, Buchanan Hall 109
Thursday, March 3, 2016 8:00-11:30 AM ASSC Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center 10:00-1:00 PM Registration, Wright Basement 1:00-1:45 PM General Assembly – ASSC Performance, Wright Performance Center
2:00-5:30 PM HS SATB, Wright Performance Center HS SSA, Brock Recital Hall HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305 (3rd
Floor Seminar Room)
MS Mixed, Brooks Hall Auditorium (Room 134) MS Treble, Cassese Band Hall
5:30-7:30 PM Dinner Break – OFF CAMPUS 7:30-9:30 PM Rehearsals, Same sites as first rehearsal 11:00 PM
Curfew
Friday, March 4, 2016- MIDDLE SCHOOL 8:30-10:00 AM MS Mixed Rehearsal, Cassese Band Hall MS Treble Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center
10:00-11:30 AM MS Mixed Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center MS Treble Rehearsal, Cassese Band Hall
11:30-1:30 PM LUNCH 24
substandard and a majority of the literature is accessible by all. I encourage you to contact JW Pepper anytime that you need literature as they provided the reading session booklets at no cost to AVA. I got to attend some quite effective sessions by our own presenters. We were afforded sessions targeting functional aspects of the choral rehearsal— vocal health, theory, rehearsal pacing, sight-reading, and reasoning of why we select the literature that we do. Again this year, my hopes were that your students rehearsing this spring semester would directly benefit from your attendance.
I congratulate the directors who provided performances at the conference. I want to encourage you to submit for a performance. Certainly consider recording your SCPA selections and submitting for a concert performance.
Being chosen for All-State Chorus is one of the highest honors a choral student in the state can receive. We auditioned approximately 3,000 students in November with approximately one-third of those being chosen for one of our five All-State ensembles. Those students will interact with some of our finest vocal conductors. Go to the AVA website to read information concerning the all-state festival.
6:30 PM 7:00 PM
Be aware that the all-state schedule this year is again quite different. All ensembles are on the campus of Samford University.
By the
time that you read this article your All-State information will be available on the AVA website from our president-elect Ginny Coleman.
I’ve asked our district chairmen to update their web pages on the AVA website. You should expect all communications for all AVA events to be disseminated via our website.
If you are attending an SCPA in
another district you should be able to get all information concerning the event you are attending from that district’s web page. Let your district chairman know if you have difficulty accessing the information.
Lastly, I look forward to our website moving to the newly hosted AMEA website. We should transition over the spring and summer to the new site. Registration for Fall Workshop will be done just as you registered for the AMEA conference. Pending some more training and us discovering what is available, hopefully all registrations will be done online this next school year—more info to come at the All-State Festival concerning this. Please communicate with your district chairman.
See you at Samford.
1:30-3:30 PM MS Mixed, Reid Chapel MS Treble, Cassese Band Hall Call Time for Concert
MS Concert, Wright Performance Center
Friday, March 4, 2016- HIGH SCHOOL 8:30-11:00 AM HS SATB, Reid Chapel HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305 HS SSA, Brock Recital Hall
11:00-1:00 PM
LUNCH – All groups will eat at rehearsal space ex- cept HS SATB, who will eat at Brock School of Business (BSOB 400)
1:00-2:30 PM HS SATB Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center HS SSA, Brock Recital Hall HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305
2:30-4:00 PM HS SATB, Brock Recital Hall HS SSA Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305
4:00-5:30 PM HS SATB, Brock Recital Hall HS SSA, Reid Chapel HS TTBB Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center
Saturday, March 5, 2016 11:00 AM
11:30 AM 12:00 PM
HS SATB Warm-Up, Wright Performance Center HS SSA Warm-Up, Brock Recital Hall HS TTBB Warm-Up, Cassese Band Hall
Call Time for HS Concert, Wright Performance Center All Performers Seated HS Concert
February/March 2016
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