WSU Choral Festival
On Saturday, 10/20/12, the RHS Treble Choir and Chamber Choirs attended the Educational Choral Festival held at Washington State University in Pullman. Both groups had the opportunity to perform and have a 40 minute clinic with members of the WSU music faculty, as well as receiving written comments by others. It was an excellent chance for us to share our music with other high school groups as well as hear the WSU choirs. Both choirs performed admirably and really showed that they are great singers with a lot of class and style. A number of students from other schools approached me and said how amazing they thought Chamber Choir sounded in their performance. I was incredibly impressed with Treble Choir in the professional approach they took to the performance. As never before in a first performance, I noticed no one in the group looking or sounding as if they were scared or even nervous up there on stage. Consequently, they had an amazing performance. Chamber Choir was also very impressive, as for some of the members, this was their very first performance with a choir. I received compliments on the challenging level of music that they were singing, especially this early in the year from Dr. Lori Wiest of WSU. Overall, it was a great day of music and bonding within the RHS Choral Department.