Choir News

It has been an exciting beginning to the year as we’ve developed our fundamentals, worked on music theory, and laid the groundwork for a great performance season.
 
Annual Lab Fee

• If you have not submitted your students Annual Lab Fee, please do so as soon as possible.
• The lab fee is essential to the function of our organization and pays for items such as music, registration fees, accompanists, and more.

Uniform

• We are currently wrapping up our uniform fittings.
• Surveys and deposits were due on October 16th.
• Please submit your student’s Concert Black Uniform Survey along with their respective payment.
• It is not possible to place our uniform order without the survey.
• A list of missing surveys has been provided in the news email and announced in class.  Please verify with your student that they have submitted their survey.

Charms

• Charms information sheets went home last quarter so that students could share their Username and Password with their parents.
• A tutorial is available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvoR8CgCwg.
  • The Pace High Choir school code is pacehighchoir
  • Your student has set their password.
    • If your student has forgotten their password and cannot recover it, then please send me an email, watersp@santarosa.k12.fl.us, asking me to reset their password back to their username.  If your student is new to the Pace High Choir program this year, their Charms username is the same as the PHS username.

Finances

• PLEASE contact me if you need a specific payment schedule for your student’s annual lab fee and uniform.
• Your student’s Financial Statement is available through Charms, http://www.pacehighchoir.com/charmscalendar.html.
• With both band and choir families, there is often confusion regarding how to read the Financial Statement on your student’s Charms Office account.
  • However, the essential information is the line that says either Total Balance or Total Credit.
    • A Total Balance indicates that you owe funds.
    • A Total Credit indicates that you have funds available.
• Electronic copies and hard copies of each student’s Financial Statement will go home next week with a guide as to how to read it.
• Thank you to everyone who is up to date on their respective payment schedule towards their student’s lab fee, uniform payments, and other various items.  This helps the choir account stay financially healthy and that allows us to create more opportunities for our students!

Fundraisers

• It is more important now more than ever that we have full participation in our fundraisers.  Our program is experiencing significant growth.  In order to best serve our students and provide them with the musical opportunities they deserve we must raise funds beyond our annual lab fee.
• Mixed Bag Designs – November 5th through November 26th
  • Mixed Bag offers tons of items that will make great gifts AND they have wrapping paper!
  • There will be an online portal that can be used to solicit purchases from distant family and friends but we get the highest profit when the order is processed by the student.
  • Check out their items ahead of the sale at http://www.mixedbagdesigns.com/ 
• World’s Finest Chocolate – November 27th until we’re sold out!
  • Great chocolate bars!
  • Each box will come with an assortment of Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Almond, and Caramel.
  • Each box contains 60 bars sold at $1 per bar.
  • Profits from the student’s first box will go towards the choir fund; all additional sales will go towards the student’s account.

Upcoming Concerts

• Santa Rosa Honor Choir (All-County) on Tuesday, October 30th at 7:00pm at First Baptist Church Milton.
• Our Winter Concert date is set for December 10th, 2018 @ Pace First United Methodist Church.
• Possible Caroling at the Riverwalk in Downtown Milton on Friday, December 7th.
• Concert Choir Luminary Service at National Cremation and Burial Society (not open to public).
• Various seasonal performance opportunities are TBA!

Upcoming Spectating Opportunities
The season to begin observing concerts by other choirs is almost here!  If you are interested in attending with us as a chaperone, please email Mr. Waters, watersp@santarosa.k12.fl.us.

• The UWF Singers will host their Fall Concert on Tuesday, November 20th at 7:30pm in the UWF Music Hall.
• Pensacola Opera’s Romeo and Juliet on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019.
• Pensacola Opera’s Florencia in the Amazon on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019.

Honor Choir News
All-County
Once again, record numbers of Pace High Choir students (31) were selected to participate in the Santa Rosa Honor Choir this year.  This concert will be held next Tuesday, October 30th at 7:00pm at First Baptist Church Milton.
Congratulations to the following students on being selected:
Bc, Ayush
Berry, Ivy
Black, Terra
Bondurant, Haley
Brammer, Isabella
Browning, Ann Marie
Bush, Erin
Clark, Brayden
Claxton, Caroline
Ervin, Dylan
Gillett, Dylan
Harper, Abigail
Hilliard, Kathleen
House, Sean
Inman, Madison
Jones, Alyssa
Jones, Drake
Linn, Michael
Malaise, Shelby
Mir, Rehman
Mullens, Katlin
Nguyen, Adam
Paciaroni, Julian
Phillips, Juniper
Portillo, Larry
Provencher, Mary
Rutherford, Shana
Taylor, Charlotte
Tyner, Jack
Whitehead, Morgan
Whiteman, Kyler
 
All-State

• The All-State audition process is finally complete.  Students have been working since June to conquer all three rounds of the audition.  This is a very rigorous process and I commend the 23 students who put themselves up to the challenge.
• We had 23 students go to the first round in September.  20 participate make it to the second round, and finally 15 students completed the third round of auditions last Tuesday. 
•  After the second round (sight-reading), Kathleen Hilliard was selected to participate in the All-State High School Reading Chorus.  Katie is the first student in Pace High School’s history to be selected for this prestigious honor.  The chorus is staffed with the top 100 high school vocalists from the state.

• Results for our 15 students who attended the Vocal Quality Audition will be announced in mid-November.  Once again, congratulations to all of the students who challenged themselves with this lengthy audition process!

 
Have a wonderful week and thank you for continuing to support your student’s music education!