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Chesapeake Choirs Fall 2022 Outline

8/31/2020

Hello everyone!

Mr. Napoli, here. If we haven't yet had the chance to meet, I'm the Choral Director here at Chesapeake Choirs! We just finished off a very interesting first year together, and I couldn't be more excited to get started on the second year with you all. I wanted to give everyone a general idea of what this year is likely to look like, and I think this is the best place to do it. As you read through this, please remember that, as much as I wish I could promise everything is going to go according to plan, that this is a fluid and constantly changing situation, which means that we're going to have to be as flexible as we can when it comes to adapting to new plans.

Obviously we'll all be following our regular AACPS schedule, which means that we'll be having synchronous lessons at the scheduled times. So, without any more delay, here's the plan for each of our groups:

Concert Choir
The core parts of our choral curriculum like vocal technique, music literacy, and ensemble skills, we'll spend a good chunk of the year in a unit on the different careers in the choral world. In this unit we'll learn about the lives of professional singers, composers, conductors & teachers, audio & video producers, managers & administrators, and more!

Chamber Singers
We'll continue learning more advanced aspects of music-reading, vocal technique, and we'll also have a mock-audition project to help us prepare for different audition scenarios. I'm working on getting a special tool approved that'll hopefully make rehearsals a bit more manageable for us, too.

Evolve
Did someone say they wanted to do ICHSA? Well here we come! I'm so excited at the opportunities we have to continue building our musical family and making music together.

More info to come. See you soon!
~Mr. Napoli

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New Evolve Release: 2019

8/21/2020

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Evolve is so excited to announce the release of our live album, recorded in the Spring of 2019! You can find it on your favorite streaming platform, or right here on Spotify!

This Evolve placed 4th at the International Championship for High School A Cappella and put on a phenomenal concert at the end of the year, so we figured we'd record it and release a live scholastic album. Former Director Michael Brisentine said of the album, "I've been involved with a whole lot of a cappella over the years, but this is the project that I am most proud to associate myself with. These kids just freaking sang their faces off. They really were a family, and I love and miss them pretty consistently."

We'd also like to give a huge thank you to...
- Angela Ugolini at Aurum Productions, for her patient and masterful mixing
- Dave Sperandio at Vocal Mastering
- Connor Martin, master editor
- David Rabizadeh, live sound
- Rob Dietz, arranger (Love So Soft)
- Jon Smith, arranger (Pray)
- Joshua Singer, arranger (Fallingwater)

...and of course, our former director and arranging extraordinaire, Michael Brisentine! Thanks for the years of knowledge and passion you've infused into Evolve and the rest of the choral program at Chesapeake. This is for you!

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