Choir
On Saturday, February 24th the Illinois Grade School Music Association Solo & Ensemble Contest was hosted by Earlville.
Sixty ICMS band and choir students participated in the contest. We are very excited about their excellent performances. Forty-three students earned 1st place and twenty-five earned second. We want to thank Ann Arrends, Mark Aska, Carol Hulthen, Karen Sjolund, Jay Monteiro, Julie Griffith, and Saige Anderson’s grandma for accompanying our students. Mr. Feken and Mrs. Schmidt deserves a big thank you as well for their dedication to excellence in our music program.
Upcoming Music Events:
March 11 IGSMA Choral Organization Contest in Naperville. All choir members
are required to attend
March 18 IGSMA Band Organization Contest will be held at ICMS. All 7/8th grade members are required to participate.
The middle school choir will also participate in the Northern Illinois Children’s Choir Middle School Festival during the afternoon/evening of March 18. All students 4th-8th grade are invited to participate in this festival and Mr. Feken will be talking with the elementary buildings this week about the festival. The festival is targeted for the southern DeKalb County schools. We hope to have a choir of 80 students representing this area of the county. We will join the NICC and our guests, the Palatine Children’s chorus in afternoon rehearsals and a final concert at NIU at 7:00 p.m. on the March 18.
Notes will go home soon with band and choral students.
If you would like to hear sound clips of the middle school choir, click on the following selections.