Pirate Choir Newsletter

The Fall Choir Concert will be at 7 PM on Thursday, September 26th at The Cross Church, located on 100 N. First St. Wylie, TX 75098.

1. Student call time is 5:30 PM, and Tempo call time is 5:00 PM.
2. Doors will open for parent seating at 6:45 PM.
3. All students should report to their call time dressed in their concert uniform.
4. Student attendance is mandatory and students will receive a major grade for their concert performance. Students will be evaluated for their major grade on their concert performance, concert etiquette, and adherence to the student cell phone policy. Students should not have their cell phone out at all during the duration of the concert-if a cell phone is out, directors will confiscate the phone and the parent of the student can pick it up after the concert. Students should all pre-plan their ride home from the event. Remember to pick up your student in a timely manner. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday evening!

Our choir students should have all received their new choir uniforms at Fitting Night on Thursday, September 5th. Treble singers have been provided the concert dress, and tenor bass singers have been provided the tux jacket and tux pants. Male students will receive their tie and cumberbund at the first concert.

There are some pieces of the choir uniform that the student is responsible for providing and not the choir department.

Female students must wear their own socks/tights and black dress shoes such as black flats or small heels (up to 2 inches). Students may not wear large jewelry to perform, and should limit use of perfumes as some students have strong migraine reactions to them.

Male students are responsible for wearing their own black dress shoes, black dress socks, and their own white tux shirt. These tux shirts are not the typical white dress shirt, but instead have small ridges down the center of the chest. We've included a link to a white tuxedo shirt your family may be interesting in purchasing off Amazon, although any brand of white tuxedo shirt will do.

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• Click HERE to pay your choir fee and complete your online form! This is required fee for all students and the due date was August 26th! To set up a payment plan for the choir fee, please contact Mrs. Capshaw at grace.capshaw@wylieisd.net and we'd be happy to work with your family to complete this payment.

Click the button below to view the choir handbook to find out more about grading, events, point system, and more!

See the link below to access the 24-25 choir calendar. The choir calendar is always linked at the bottom of the newsletter each week as well as live at wyliechoir.com

Come get extra help on the second round of All Region music during the first half of lunch Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Officers and upper classmen will sing with you and help you!

Congratulations to all of our amazing singers that auditioned at the District Round of All Region Auditions last Saturday. We had a wonderful crew of Pirate Choir volunteers that helped to run the contest all day and host the over 800 singers who competed in this first round of auditions. Thank you for your time and thank you to our wonderful booster club and parent volunteers for providing breakfast and lunch to the judges.

Congratulations to the 47 WHS Pirate Choir singers who are advancing on to Round 2 Region Auditions! Round 2 Auditions are October 1st at Princeton HS and registration is from 2-3pm. Auditions will start at 3:30pm and students may leave after their audition. Students will be field tripped out of their 5th-7th period classes for this audition. All students should have indicated in class if they were planning to drive themselves to the audition or bus over from Wylie HS and be picked up by a parent. No transportation will be provided back to Wylie HS, so if a student has chosen to bus over, then you must make plans to be picked up after your vocal audition.

Please do NOT sign up for the SAT on November 2nd if you plan to participate in the All Region Audition Process, as the All Region Clinic and Concert is November 2nd.

Click Here for Tempo dates and ad info!

Dates specific to Tempo are on this webpage.

Be sure you are also keeping up with the full Choir Calendar!

Ad Deadlines:

$200 by November 22

$200 by February 28

Click Here for Chamber Singers dates and info!

Dates specific to Chamber Singers are on this webpage.

Be sure you are also keeping up with the full Choir Calendar!

$80 Chamber Singers fee is due September 27

Click Here for Swash dates and info! Dates specific to Swash are on this webpage.

Be sure you are also keeping up with the full Choir Calendar!

Swash T-shirts will be approx $25. More to come!

Saturday, September 21 - Grab your Booty Party at Breckenridge Part, Lot C, 12-3 pm

Monday, September 23 - HOCO parade, Tempo

Thursday, September 26 - FALL CONCERT, 7PM, The Cross Church *required event

Thursday, September 26-Booster General Meeting, 6:15 PM, The Cross Church

Thursday, September 26-Mod Pizza Spirit Day

Friday, September 27-Tempo Sings the National Anthem, HOCO game, 7 pm

Tuesday, October 1-Phrase 2 Region Choir Auditions, Princeton HS, 2pm

Thursday, October 3-Matilda Musical Meeting, 6:30 PM, WHS Auditorium

October 8-9-Dinner Show Auditions, individual audition during class time

October 14-18-Fall Break

Please add these dates to your family/work calendar, as we work very hard to give the dates to you as soon as possible. Major grade events are highlighted in green. Please do not schedule conflicts on major grade event days.