Monday, May 23, 2011

Congratulations CHORUS!


On Friday May 20, 2011 the Garrison Forest Middle School Chorus went to a competition at Hershey Park. (To read more about our trip, read Sophie’s blog from last week). Our group of 39 students had been preparing for months, and when the day arrived we were all very nervous. We left school at 8:00 am so that we could arrive in time to sing our songs at Hershey. 

The selections we sang that day included When I Close My Eyes, our warm-up song, and our two judged ieces, Round Rolling Moon and Dirait-on. Dirait-on was a very hard piece to learn because it is listed as a High School choir piece in the state of Maryland. We sang these selections in a church that was just a couple miles from Hershey, so after we had sung we left for the park. 


"Round Rolling Moon" ; Music in Our Parks Competition in Hershey, PA. 5.20.11

"Dairot-an"; Music in Our Parks Competition in Hershey, PA. 5.20.11
Our Choral Director, Mrs. Flynn, was telling us how great we did on the ride from the Church to Hershey. In the past she has be a choral judge and she told us that if she had been judge us she would have given us superior. At first we didn’t believe her. We thought she was just saying that because she was our director, but little did we know that she was telling the truth.
 
After we sang and realized we had done our best, we were excited to be able to enjoy hours of fun in Hershey Park. We split up into groups and got to walk around the park by ourselves. We got to do many fun things including rides, rollercoasters, and 4-D movies. We also got to stock up on Candy and Goodies when some of the chorus got to go on a trip to Hershey World.
After all of the fun was over it was time to head to the Hershey arena for the awards ceremony. When we heard that the women’s choir awards were going to be announced we became quite eager. After we didn’t win second place in the women’s division we thought we had no chance. Then they announced the 1st place women’s choir and the school that won was us! We were overjoyed and very excited. 


We were glad we had won after all. We thought we were very lucky to win that award but the really prize came when the Garrison Forest Middle School Choir won best overall chorus including women, men’s, mixed, and treble choirs. 

On the bus ride back we were all very proud but the person who we owe it all to is our director, Mrs. Flynn. We would’ve never come this far with this much confidence without her. At the end of the day we were proud to be representing Garrison Forest School and hope we can do this well in years to come!
-- Text by Emily Oleisky (Class of 2016); Videos and photos courtesy of Mrs. Mary Stewart and Mrs. Rachel Herlein

13 comments:

  1. Great Job Chorus! Your hard work really paid off! Congrats!

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  2. you all did really good as i saw in the videos so it was no suprise you won=)!!!!

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  3. This is so cool! I hope you compete again next year!

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  4. Congratulations! We're all so proud of you. Thanks for getting this story published so quickly!

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  5. You guys sounded really great!! Congrats!

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  6. I loved it!We had a great time.

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  7. @Alex T. @Jaida M. @Renee Hawkins @ Channing
    Thank you all for your support!

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  8. @J Mae F
    I agree, it was a great experience. Hope we can compete again next year!

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  9. Great Job Chorus!

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  10. Wow great job winning on your first year at competition.

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  11. Congratulations Chorus! Way to go!!!

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  12. @Maddie thank you! we all tried our best! We hope to compete next year too!

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  13. this is was awesome i cant believe we won :)

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