Grissom Choir

Congratulations Mountain Gap Advanced Choir!

Yesterday's Grissom Choral Assessment was a smash-hit on all accounts. Both our Men's & Concert Choir's received "Outstanding" & "Superior" Ratings from our clinicians, with our Women's & Chamber Choir receiving straight "Outstanding" Ratings. We were honored to host our feeder middle schools at this event, as well as our clinicians Dr. William Powell & Dr. Aaron Jackson. Thank you to our Grissom Choral Parents Association, Leadership Team, feeder schools and directors, and our clinicians for not only supporting this event, but also for creating impactful experience for our students!

Last Friday Night, Grissom Choir hosted Pizza & Pop, its annual showcase performance night featuring our multi-talented choral students. It is a joy to see our students expressing themselves in various musical outlets, as well as seeing the support from their friends and family! Thank you to Amber Cloud, Director of Youth Ministries at Trinity UMC for hosting us, as well as their Youth Ministry for supply our deserts for this fun evening!

Yearbook photos are a wrap! Thank you to Ken Hall of Ken Hall Photograph for helping us look our best!

Last weekend, Grissom Choir had a wonderful time recruiting current middle school students into our program, through Mr. Ratcliff's annual Recruitment Day, and our 5th Grissom Choral Festival! Modeled after various Collegiate Honor Choirs, our goal was to inspire middle school students through discussions & choral singing so they will continue to participate in choir throughout middle school and high school. Thank you to our three feeder middle school choral directors for taking time out of their day to allow Mr. Ratcliff to speak with their class, and sharing their students with us at the festival!

Next up for Grissom Choir is our 5th Annual "Grissom Choral Festival"! This is a wonderful opportunity for current middle school students, grades 7th-8th, to sing and perform alongside current high school choir members and see what being in Grissom Choir is all about! Modeled after various Collegiate Honor Choirs, our goal is to inspire middle school students through choral singing so they will continue to participate in choir throughout middle school and high school. Come out and support our Chamber Choir, Leadership Team, & FUTURE Grissom Choir members by attending the free concert this Saturday!

Grissom Choir is excited to be partnering with Poppin Popcorn, an easy and inexpensive way to support our fundraising efforts! With profits set at 50% per order, there isn't a better way to show support for our students through this completely online fundraiser. Visit www.grissomchoir.com/fundraisers to order today!

Grissom Choir has been anxiously waiting to announce that this year, we will hosting the Grissom Choral Assessment, which will act as an in-house choral performance assessment for Grissom Choir, alongside its three feeder middle school choral programs: Challenger Middle School, Mountain Gap Middle School, & Whitesburg Middle School. In this assessment, each of the schools various choirs perform two songs in contrasting style in front of two performance adjudicators for ratings ranging from "Outstanding" to "Fair". The on-stage choir is then given a post-performance, one-on-one clinic with one of the adjudicators. This workshop is designed to encourage, invigorate, and enforce the daily teachings of each department, alongside the overall goals of Choral Music Educators in the state of Alabama.

We are beyond thrilled to have Dr. William Powell, director of choral activities at Auburn University, and Mr. Stacy Daniels, choral music director at Liberty Middle School, as our two inaugural clinicians for this year's Grissom Choral Assessment.

Visit https://www.grissomchoir.com/choralassessment.html to read more about our festival and our guest adjudicators!

The Chamber Choir went on their annual Winter Tour this past Tuesday, caroling & recruiting not just at our 3 feeder schools, but Parkway Place Mall, Belk, & Dillards. Thank you to the GHS Faculty for working with our singers on our exam day, as well as our middle school teachers Ms. Hendley, Mrs. Ratcliff, & Mrs. Thompson for allowing us to sing and speak with your students as we all wrapped up the semester!

What a week it has been for Grissom Choir! After a fantastic Winter Concert last Tuesday, The Grissom Chamber Choir took the stage to present Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Cantata. A huge congratulations to all four curricular Grissom Choir on an outstanding Winter Concert!

The Chamber Choir spread a little cheer today, caroling around Grissom in preparation for our Winter Concert tomorrow evening. Come out and support our 120+ students tomorrow night at 7:00p.m.!

The Grissom Chamber Choir kicked-off the month of December yesterday recording carols to be broadcasted on WHNT across the next couple of weeks. Thank you to Cristina Byrne of WHNT, & Craig Williams of HCS for helping set up this studio session! These students have a BUSY schedule ahead of them, with 2 Winter Concerts, and 2 Caroling Days around Grissom and the city of Huntsville. We are so proud of their dedication and perseverance to bring joy this time of year!

Congratulations to the 10 Grissom Choir students that were selected to participate in the 2025 AVA All-State Choral Festival! We are so proud of you, your hard work, and perseverance!

In a recent issue of a Scholastic publication, precisely "Scholastic News 4", there was an article titled "Should Kids Learn Music in School?", encouraging students and teachers to "Debate It", and cast a vote. The National Association for Music Education wrote a very detailed letter as to why music education is crucial for student development at all ages. It is also Grissom Choir's philosophy that students need to receive year-round music education in order for them to navigate the changing voice, so that they develop, progress, and mature vocally with safe vocal techniques.