Hard Work and Stolen Moments Pay Off for Choral Group
The Seneca Middle School Honors Chorus is a hardworking group of young people.
A mixture of both 7th and 8th grade students, their differing class schedules prevent them from meeting together daily. Thus, as the highly accomplished group they are, they must work hard during stolen moments before school just one day a week in order to learn new music and perfect their sound.
Aside from the number of students from this program who have been chosen for All-County, All-State, and the Southeast Regional Honor Choirs, which attests to their outstanding talent and instruction, the SMS Honors Chorus recently performed at the SC Upstate Concert Performance Assessment where they again demonstrated where hard work and talent can lead.
After performing prepared and sight-reading pieces in front of three judges, theirs was the only group to be awarded a Superior with Distinction rating. They competed in the advanced division (the highest division) which is both judged more strictly in the prepared performance and requires them to complete a much more difficult sight-reading piece than other choirs in lower divisions. They received an overall score of 97.33 with a perfect score of 100 for the sight-reading performance.
The SMS Honors Chorus is directed by Mrs. Carla Brock and is made up of the following students: Emmanuel Attisso, Nyterious Bradley, Lydia Carlson, Jania Carmichael, Eliora Cobb, Maddie Cooley, Abbey Crenshaw, Derion Davis, Kaitlyn Day, Grant Duvall, Thomas Evatt, Morgan Gallimore, Stephen Goodroe, Linley Hammett, Lagen Hawkins, Lauren Ivey,
Tyler Johnson, Riley Martin, Macari Mayfield, Parker Moroney, Sawyer Moss, Olivia Moulder, Khloee Myers, Maddi Oxford, Sydney Parkhurst, Emily Pipes, Addison Putman, Laina Rebholz, Alyssa Rich, Campbell Roberts, Lyric Sayres, Avery Smith, Nation Williams, and Brooke Wylie.
The Seneca Middle School Honors Chorus recently received a Superior with Distinction rating at their state-level concert performance assessment.
According to Brock, “I am so proud of these students’ hard work and determination to compete in the advanced division and to not only present a wonderful, heart-felt performance of their repertoire, but also in achieving a perfect score on the sight-reading portion. This is the first time Seneca Middle has ever gotten a perfect score in sight-reading!”