2008 Woodie Awards
Sing your way to class
SIUE offers four choir groups to all students
Lindsay Dunham
Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: A&E
Alestle Reporter
Instead of sitting at a desk and listening to lecturers, Hannah Kreoger sings for class credit.
Kreoger, a music major, said although choir was required for her, it was a class she would have gladly taken anyway.
"It was my favorite class in high school, and I also heard that we have a great concert choir here," Kreoger said.
SIUE offers four choirs for students to participate in, a concert choir, a madrigal choir, a choral society and a treble choir.
"The madrigal choir is a highly select choir," Joel Knapp, director of choral activities, said. "They have two main events, performing at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival and putting on the Madrigal Dinner."
Allison Wamser, a senior music major, said at the Renaissance Festival people dress up and speak as if they were living during the Renaissance time period. There are also booths set up as well as comedians and theatrical performances.
"The Renaissance Festival is like a big outdoor theme park," Wamser said. "You can do really cool things there. Last year, I rode an elephant."
Half of the SIUE choral society's members are SIUE students, but the other half are part of the local community.
The treble choir, directed by music instructor Chris Eubank, is a training choir, according to Knapp. It primarily focuses on development of a singer's voice and sight-reading.
The concert choir is SIUE's premier choir. The concert choir performs multiple times a year, including a fall concert and a holiday concert. It is composed of half music majors and half non-music majors. Students don't have to be a music major to join. Non-music majors are also part of the concert choir.
Knapp said non-music majors are welcome to join the choirs as well, and having non-music majors involved brings a new perspective.
Wamser, who joined as a freshman, said she has benefited greatly from joining concert choir.
"It has given me countless advances in my music ability and the fun of new friends, as well as amazing experiences I couldn't have gotten anywhere else," Wamser said.
Students can also get class credit for joining choir. If interested in joining, students should contact Knapp and set up an audition.
"They must sing for me, but it's not high pressure, and they don't need to have anything prepared," Knapp said. "Nobody gets turned away. We have a choir for every singer."
To contact Knapp about an auditon for any choir, e-mail him at jknapp@siue.edu or call 650-2024.
Instead of sitting at a desk and listening to lecturers, Hannah Kreoger sings for class credit.
Kreoger, a music major, said although choir was required for her, it was a class she would have gladly taken anyway.
"It was my favorite class in high school, and I also heard that we have a great concert choir here," Kreoger said.
SIUE offers four choirs for students to participate in, a concert choir, a madrigal choir, a choral society and a treble choir.
"The madrigal choir is a highly select choir," Joel Knapp, director of choral activities, said. "They have two main events, performing at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival and putting on the Madrigal Dinner."
Allison Wamser, a senior music major, said at the Renaissance Festival people dress up and speak as if they were living during the Renaissance time period. There are also booths set up as well as comedians and theatrical performances.
"The Renaissance Festival is like a big outdoor theme park," Wamser said. "You can do really cool things there. Last year, I rode an elephant."
Half of the SIUE choral society's members are SIUE students, but the other half are part of the local community.
The treble choir, directed by music instructor Chris Eubank, is a training choir, according to Knapp. It primarily focuses on development of a singer's voice and sight-reading.
The concert choir is SIUE's premier choir. The concert choir performs multiple times a year, including a fall concert and a holiday concert. It is composed of half music majors and half non-music majors. Students don't have to be a music major to join. Non-music majors are also part of the concert choir.
Knapp said non-music majors are welcome to join the choirs as well, and having non-music majors involved brings a new perspective.
Wamser, who joined as a freshman, said she has benefited greatly from joining concert choir.
"It has given me countless advances in my music ability and the fun of new friends, as well as amazing experiences I couldn't have gotten anywhere else," Wamser said.
Students can also get class credit for joining choir. If interested in joining, students should contact Knapp and set up an audition.
"They must sing for me, but it's not high pressure, and they don't need to have anything prepared," Knapp said. "Nobody gets turned away. We have a choir for every singer."
To contact Knapp about an auditon for any choir, e-mail him at jknapp@siue.edu or call 650-2024.
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