Women's Choir: Onto States

The Night of Voices

By: Abby Piert

The OMEA was held  on March 4th 2017 at Shore Middle school. Madison schools sent in six choirs total, three from the middle school and three form the high school all ranging with talents. Each choir was to perform in front of three judges and show them everything they have, and that is just what they did.

During the performance the judges give the choirs all a rating from a five to a one, five being the worst score you can get, and one being the top score you can get. Madison's high school’s Women's choir and Show choir both were ranked with a score of one being the highest score, the other choirs Madison brought were given scores between a two and a three.

The choirs are required to do a site reading, which means reading a sheet of music without ever seeing it before. They have four minutes to read and prepare to sing it in front of the judges.  They have one minute to sing it as a group and rehearse it. Once the time is up, they have to give it their all. The women's choir won with the highest score of the night. The large group contest winners advance to states.

The women’s choir ended with the highest rating over everyone and will be advancing to states to take on the best of the best choirs. Over the past three years the Women’s choir has gone and qualified to states and they are keeping up the streak. The Women's choir has members ranging from seniors who have spent all four years in the choir and some freshman which makes this their first year of this terrific experience. MHS ended the day with one choir on its way to states which will be held at Medina High school on Saturday April 29th 2017.