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Join a highly successful tradition of musical excellence where students not only learn about music, but find a place where they belong. All students have a chance to succeed academically, socially, and musically.
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AHS Choir Benefits
I'd rather look back at my life and say, "I can't believe I did that," instead of saying, "I wish I did that!"
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Music Benefits
Music Quotes
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What Do AHS Students Say About Choir?
Choir has given me the opportunity to branch out of my comfort zone and
try something that I never though I could do. I am a better person for it.
-Kris Acuña, Yale University,
Senior Class President, Men's Swimming Captain, NHS President, Student Council, Relay for Life, Cross Country, Japanese Honor Society, Link Crew
The AHS choir program has allowed me to enjoy music daily, compete in a non-athletic activity,
and brought me close with people I wouldn't have met otherwise.
-Heather Kuluzniak, College of St. Benedict,
Athena Award (Most Outstanding Female Athlete), Women's Soccer Captain, Women's Hockey Captain, Women's LaCrosse Captain, NHS Member, Spanish Honor Society, Sno-Daze Royalty, Environmental Society President, Link Crew
Singing has given me a greater appreciation for different varieties of music,
and I have learned many lessons that will allow me to be more successful in the future.
-Grant Kregness, U of M,
NHS, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Chamber Singers, Men's Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, Soccer, Tennis, Chick Evans Caddie Full-tuition Scholarship Winner, Link Crew
Choir has taught me to give my all every day, and to be proud of who I am.
-Caroline Schmidt, Iowa State University,
NHS Secretary, Student Council, Best Buddies Vice President, Women's Golf, Chamber Singers, Relay for Life Coordinator, Opera Club President
I couldn’t be more relieved that I joined choir as a reluctant freshman! Not only did I make incredible friendships there, but choir strengthened the enduring values of accountability, teamwork, and respect.
-Kevin Dye, ‘14, U of M, Twin Cities
Theater - Fall & Spring Show, Musical, NHS treasure, Link Crew, Student Council, ACDA State Honor Choirs, National AP Scholar (11 AP Classes)
Choir has prepared me to face the “real world.” Not only did I make beautiful music, but I have also learned to push myself to do the best I can.
-Sophia Pellizer, ‘14, College of St. Benedict’s
Theater - Fall & Spring Show, Musical, Link Crew, Student Council, 8 AP Classes, High Honors, Studied Voice Lessons for 4 Years, Held Job All 4 Years
Choir has had an enormous impact on me, and the amount of progress that I have made since freshman year has been unimaginable! I am so grateful!
-Karen Clark, ’14, Brigham Young University
Ultimate Frisbee, Relay for Life, 7 AP Classes, NHS, Vice President Symphonic Band, Chamber Singers, Musical Pit, Drum Major, All–Conference Orchestra
Choir has given me the opportunity to branch out of my comfort zone and
try something that I never though I could do. I am a better person for it.
-Kris Acuña, Yale University,
Senior Class President, Men's Swimming Captain, NHS President, Student Council, Relay for Life, Cross Country, Japanese Honor Society, Link Crew
The AHS choir program has allowed me to enjoy music daily, compete in a non-athletic activity,
and brought me close with people I wouldn't have met otherwise.
-Heather Kuluzniak, College of St. Benedict,
Athena Award (Most Outstanding Female Athlete), Women's Soccer Captain, Women's Hockey Captain, Women's LaCrosse Captain, NHS Member, Spanish Honor Society, Sno-Daze Royalty, Environmental Society President, Link Crew
Singing has given me a greater appreciation for different varieties of music,
and I have learned many lessons that will allow me to be more successful in the future.
-Grant Kregness, U of M,
NHS, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Chamber Singers, Men's Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, Soccer, Tennis, Chick Evans Caddie Full-tuition Scholarship Winner, Link Crew
Choir has taught me to give my all every day, and to be proud of who I am.
-Caroline Schmidt, Iowa State University,
NHS Secretary, Student Council, Best Buddies Vice President, Women's Golf, Chamber Singers, Relay for Life Coordinator, Opera Club President
I couldn’t be more relieved that I joined choir as a reluctant freshman! Not only did I make incredible friendships there, but choir strengthened the enduring values of accountability, teamwork, and respect.
-Kevin Dye, ‘14, U of M, Twin Cities
Theater - Fall & Spring Show, Musical, NHS treasure, Link Crew, Student Council, ACDA State Honor Choirs, National AP Scholar (11 AP Classes)
Choir has prepared me to face the “real world.” Not only did I make beautiful music, but I have also learned to push myself to do the best I can.
-Sophia Pellizer, ‘14, College of St. Benedict’s
Theater - Fall & Spring Show, Musical, Link Crew, Student Council, 8 AP Classes, High Honors, Studied Voice Lessons for 4 Years, Held Job All 4 Years
Choir has had an enormous impact on me, and the amount of progress that I have made since freshman year has been unimaginable! I am so grateful!
-Karen Clark, ’14, Brigham Young University
Ultimate Frisbee, Relay for Life, 7 AP Classes, NHS, Vice President Symphonic Band, Chamber Singers, Musical Pit, Drum Major, All–Conference Orchestra
Music is a science
It is specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities,volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
Music is mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French and the notation is certainly not English but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is history
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation often even the country and/ or racial feeling.
Music is physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all, music is art.
It allows a human being to take all of these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
That is why we teach music.
Not because we expect our students to major in music
Not because we expect them to play or sing all their life
Not so they can relax
Not so they can have fun.
But so they will be human
So they will recognize beauty
So they will be sensitive
So they will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
So they will have something to cling to
So they will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good
- - in short, more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
That is why we teach music.
It is specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities,volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
Music is mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French and the notation is certainly not English but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is history
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation often even the country and/ or racial feeling.
Music is physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all, music is art.
It allows a human being to take all of these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
That is why we teach music.
Not because we expect our students to major in music
Not because we expect them to play or sing all their life
Not so they can relax
Not so they can have fun.
But so they will be human
So they will recognize beauty
So they will be sensitive
So they will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
So they will have something to cling to
So they will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good
- - in short, more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
That is why we teach music.