Choir

LHS Curricular Choral Ensembles

**Each curricular ensemble meets 5 times a week during the school day. Each choir is taken for a grade that counts toward the students overall GPA.

Beginning Choirs

 – D128 Standards & Targets for Choir

Chorale (freshmen boys and girls – no audition required)

Prerequisite:  None
Chorale is designed as a mixed choir (girls and boys) for freshmen choral students.  This course focuses on music fundamentals, proper vocal techniques, sight singing, music terminology, and notation.  Music of various styles and histroical periods is rehearsed and performed.  Students are required to attend concerts in the evening.  All students are eligible to audition for extracurricular vocal groups.

Concert Chorale (sophomore, junior, & senior boys and girls – no audition required)

Prerequisite: Previous choral experience and placement
Concert Chorale is designed as a mixed choir for students with previous choral experience.  This course focuses on music fundamentals, proper vocal techniques, sight singing, music terminology, and notation.  Music of various styles and historical periods is rehearsed and performed.  Students are required to attend concerts in the evening.  All studetns are eligible to audition for extracurricular vocal groups.

Advanced Choirs

 – D128 Standards & Targets for Choir

Bel Canto (junior and senior girls – audition required)

Prerequisite: Previous choral experience and audition required.
Bel Canto is designed for advanced choral students whose voice quality, range, and timbre falls within the treble clef.  In this course, students work on proper vocal production, breath control, and sight singing.  Students rehearse and perform choral music of various styles and historical periods in concerts throughout the year.  Advanced music terminology and singing techniques are emphasized.  Students are required to attend concerts in the evening and must attend a weekly 25-minute sectional during a lunch study hall, if their schedule permits.  All students are eligible to audition for extracurricular vocal groups.

Concert Choir (junior and senior boys and girls – audition required)

Prerequisite: Previous choral experience and audition required.
Concert Choir is designed for advanced choral students and continues to work on proper vocal production, breath control, and sight singing.  Students rehearse and perform choral music of various styles and historical periods in concerts throughout the year.  Advanced music terminology and singing techniques are emphasized.  Students are required to attend concerts in the evening and must attend a weekly 25-minute sectional during a lunch study hall, if their schedule permits.  All students are eligible to audition for extracurricular vocal groups.  Optional Honors Credit is available in this class through application with, and approval of the instructor.

Fall Choir Concert

Late September/Early October
This is our first concert of the school year and showcases our 4 curricular choirs: Chorale, Concert Chorale, Bel Canto, & Concert Choir.

Fall Jr. High Choir Festival

Late October
Concert will be held in the LHS Gymnasium
This concert showcases our middle school singers from Oak Grove School, Rondout School, and Highland Middle School.

Holiday Music Festival

Early-December
This is our gift back to the Libertyville community.  All 8 LHS choral ensembles perform holiday favorites to get everyone into the spirit of the season.

Cabaret

Mid to Late February
This is our annual Pops concert.  All 8 LHS choral groups perform as well as selected singers from the choral department.

Spring Choir Concert

Mid May
This is our final choral extravaganza of the year.  Standards of the choral repertoire are performed and awards are presented to seniors and outstanding students in each choir.

Community High School District 128 is committed to supporting our students' academic and fine art success. We understand that there are times when families seek additional instructional support beyond the classroom.
To assist you in this process, we maintain a list of private tutors who have expressed interest in working with our students. We provide this list strictly as a voluntary resource and convenience for our families. The list should not be taken as an endorsement of private tutors in general, or of any specific tutor who has requested to be added to our list.
Please be advised of the following regarding these private tutoring services:

• Employment Status: The individuals on this list are not employees or agents of District 128. They function entirely as independent contractors, are not supervised by District 128, and are not subject to the same policies and conduct expectations that apply to District 128 employees.
• Oversight: The District makes no representations regarding their credentials, character, or the quality of their instruction. Each family is responsible for exercising their own judgment as to whether to engage any particular private tutor.
• Risks: The parent/guardian assumes all risks associated with hiring a private tutor, including but not limited to physical safety during tutoring sessions (whether held in person or online).
• Contractual Agreement: Any tutoring arrangement, including scheduling, location of services, and payment, is a private agreement between the parent/guardian and the tutor. The District is not a party to these transactions.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the parent/guardian agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Community High School District 128, its Board of Education, employees, and agents from any and all claims, demands, losses, liability, or causes of action arising out of or in any way connected with the use of a private tutor from this list.

Choir Information for 8th Graders

 If you currently in 8th grade and considering being in choir when you come to LHS, here is some information to consider.

• Choir in high school is a class which meets 5 days a week during the school day.
• You can take choir for a grade, similarly to orchestra and band.
• There are no conflicts between choir and sports.  If you are an athlete, all athletics are extra-curricular activities.  This means that if you play football, soccer, or volleyball, those activities would happen after the regular school day.  The only conflict that might occur is between a concert and a potential meet or practice and those conflicts are always worked out in the student's best interest between LHS faculty.
• There is no audition to sign up for choir as an incoming freshmen.  All you have to do is tell your counselor that you want to be in choir and they will sign you up.  Choir counts as your elective in your schedule.

If you have other questions about choir at Libertyville High School, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,
Jeff Brown, LHS Choir Director

Email  Phone:  847-327-7085