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A. The Chorus Web Site: The AMMS Chorus hosts an interactive and informative web site that I have created and keep updated on a regular basis. On the site, there is important information for parents, students, and visitors. I will post pictures of concerts, festivals, and classroom activities on the web site. In addition, there will be audio rehearsal tracks available to download on your home computer. I urge you take advantage of our web site and this technology, as it is accessible 24 hours a day! Also, please do not hesitate to e-mail me. I am always online and check my e-mail several times daily!
** If your child’s picture is taken while in class or during a concert, I am asking your permission to allow it to be posted on our web site. I will not include names or any personal information of students on the site. I feel it is safe and most students agree that it is cool to be “on the web!!” At the end of this handbook, there will be a permission form to allow your child’s picture to be posted on the web site. If I do not receive your approval, your child’s picture will not be posted, or if in a group photo, their face will be digitally blurred and will be unrecognizable.
B. Concert / Festival Behavior: Throughout the year students will have several opportunities not only to perform on stage but also to participate as an audience. Learn these rules and enhance our chorus’ image, as well as your own, at the next concert!!
Guidelines for PERFORMERS!
- Students should be in uniform at the performance site at the designated time, this time is the time the students should be in places not arriving. Students should not be wandering around the school.
- No gum chewing, eating or drinking.
- Show good posture: head forward, shoulders rolled back (no slouching), arms/hands relaxed at the sides of the body, knees not locked, feet shoulder-with apart with weight balanced evenly on the balls of the feet.
- Wear correct concert attire – shirts tucked in, etc.
- Walk (do not stomp!) on the risers single-file, in a quiet and orderly fashion.
- Know the correct order of the music for the performance.
- No giggling, laughing, or fooling around on stage. NO WAVING to anyone in the audience!!
- Keep your eyes on the Director, no looking around, watch for dynamic changes, cut-offs, the starting and stopping of each piece, etc.
- Maintain your professionalism on stage, even if your audience does not know how to behave.
- All concert participants must leave the concert area after the performance. Please make sure you have transportation to and from the concert site. There have been several evenings when teachers and administrators have had to wait with students who have been picked up late.
Guidelines for AUDIENCE!
- Absolutely no talking during the performance.
- Performance begins when the director takes the podium or walks on stage, and ends when he/she steps away from the podium and leaves the stage.
- If you enjoyed the peresentation, let the performers know.
- Whispering is only permitted between musical selections, and should be avoided completely, if possible.
- Applause is the ONLY form of giving approval for a performance.
- No whistling, shouting, or yelling throughout a concert performance.
- No walking around whild a piece is being performed, as it distracts the performers. If you have small childre or know that you might need to excuse yourself during a performance, please sit near an exit; wiat until the piece is finished to exit and re-enter. Remember, almost all of our performances are being recorded - what happens in the performance hall will be on the recording (this includes, talking, coughing, crying, doors slamming, etc.)
- If their is a mistake do not ridicule, laugh, point or say anything; remember, at the next concert it may be you.
- Do not applaud until the Director puts his/her arms down and turns toward the audience, as the piece may not be finished.
- As a participant or a member of the audience, you should show common courtesy by remaining for the entire concert. Please do not ask to leave early. It is very distracting and rude for people to be entering and exiting.
- If you come in late for the performance, stand at the door until the composition is completed, then take a seat.
- Do not pop bubble gum, because it distracts the performers.
- If you see someone who is not using good behavior, do your best to discourage it, for they might not be aware of the “correct” way to behave.
- Give your full attention to the performance and use common since; save the other behavior for athletic evens or rock concerts, not choir orchestra, or band concerts.
- Please turn OFF all cellular phones, pager, or any other noisy device.
- NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY during the performance, flashes are permitted during the applause but not during the musical selection. If you don’t know how to turn your flash off then don’t take any pictures. Flashes are extremely distracting during performances; shiny objects often distract students!!
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