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Greetings from the choir room at East High School. It is a great day to sing. I'm very happy to be leading the choirs at East this year. As a professional musician for the last 30+ years, I joined the arena of
education in 2009 with great excitement and high aspirations for fantastic years of choral music. I am a huge fan of jazz, blues and pop as well as traditional choral literature, and look forward to incorporating
all styles of music into our rehearsals and performances.
Due to the unpredicted pandemic, we are of course holding class via Zoom, rather than in person. While this feels strange and perhaps a bit unsettling, I think we have a wonderful opportunity to delve more
deeply into vocal technique and allow for each student to explore their individual voice. I plan to work on breath support, phonation, music theory and sight reading with great vigor. Although I love singing
together as an ensemble, this initial remote teaching and learning affords us the time to focus on other important elements in music education. We are going to make lemonade out of lemons!
Auditions for Swing Choir were not able to take place during 4th quarter, as they usually do. Based on observations of choir students enrolled in my classes last year during 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarter I invited
students to join Swing Choir. My invitations were based on the following:
Grade Level
Past experience in an East HS choir and other choirs
Work ethic
Extra musical endeavors such as All-State Music Festival, Solo and Ensemble, the school musical and solo opportunities.
I feel very grateful for my students and the talent(s) they share with me. I look forward to a productive year making beautiful music and will continue to stay positive and flexible during these unprecedented
times.
Sincerely,
Melissa Fischer
Please refer to the following links for Zoom, Clever, Canvas and other platforms and application with which we shall use during this school year.
Students should plan to sign in each day using www.clever.asdk12.org
Zoom links:
1st period Mixed Choir: https://asdk12.zoom.us/j/97833624160?pwd=dUo1M3dFNEhtc05kRHF1K0dOV0s4QT09
Meeting ID 978 3362 4160 password: sing
2nd period Men's Choir: https://asdk12.zoom.us/j/99541579012?pwd=YTBiUlZwbnNaQWZla1lDZkpMT2pBZz09
Meeting ID 995 4157 9012 password: sing
3rd period Mixed Choir https://asdk12.zoom.us/j/96920523114?pwd=S21oTS9ZdHd5OXorTERNNCtYNVZ1Zz09
Meeting ID 969 2052 3114
