Chamber Choir

At Kennedy High School the vocal music department is known for having great choirs every year. Mr. Ziegler is the main director and Mr. Sands is the assistant director. I am lucky to be in the elite choir in the program. We call it chamber choir. We meet every other day during 6th hour. Some of the songs we are doing include: "Virga Jesse", "The Uncertainty of the Poet", "Lay a Garland", "Fauna Canzona", and my favorite "In Remembrance". These songs are much more difficult than the ones sung in regular choir. They give us a good challenge, but I think we handle most of them quite nicely. Every year this group goes to the state ensamble contest. This is most likely not the kind of contest you are thinking of. Groups do not compete against each other, they compete against a rating system. A one is the highest, then a two, then a three, and so on. This contest was at Linn-Mar High School this year. We arrived there at about 2:30 pm with a perfomance time of 3:10. It took a while to find where we were supposed to be, but we managed to find it. The songs we would be performing were "Virga Jesse", "The Uncertainty of the Poet", and "In Remembrance". We got to choose the songs we performed by a vote. These three are all very good songs that everyone in the choir liked. We also felt very comfortable with how they sounded when we sang them. This made it easier to perform them in front of a judge. During our performance an audience member's cell phone rang. It was quite distracting. Somehow we managed to pull ourselves together because we ended up getting a one! I was very happy to find out this news later in the day. It felt good to know that we were the best that we could be, and the judge liked our songs.