
7-8 Honor Choir
Audition Information
Step 1:
Prepare your audition
Registration will be open February 15-April 15 - Audition fee is $15 and is paid through OPUS
1. My Country ‘Tis of Thee (America) or The Alphabet Song:
Starting on the pitches listed
below, sing the first verse (or one time through for the Alphabet Song) unaccompanied, at a moderate tempo. Accompanied
singers will be disqualified.
Starting pitches for either selection:
Soprano: A above middle C Alto: E above middle C
Tenor: A below middle C Baritone: F below middle C
2. SOLO: Sing one to two minutes of a song of any genre (with or without accompaniment), which demonstrates your best vocal technique and musicianship. Limit the piano introduction to no more than 5 seconds.
Step 2:
Submit audition recording and information through OPUS
Step 3:
Selected students should pay their participation fee of $50 through OPUS
(T-shirt, 1 lunch will be provided)
Payment or Registration Issues??
Contact: Jana Fox
Procedural Questions??
Contact: Jon Logan
MCDA 7-8
Summer Honor Choir
July 22, 2025
University Plaza Hotel, Springfield, MO
Event Information
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Open to students who are currently in grades 7 & 8
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Rehearsals: July 22 in Springfield, MO
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Performance July 22 (evening)
Repertoire
Title | Composer | Publisher | Voicing |
---|---|---|---|
Dies Irae | Ryan Main | Endeavor Music 1001042 | SATB |
Durme Durme | Audrey Snyder | Hal Leonard 08551515 | 3-part Mixed |
Keep Your Lamps | Victor Johnson | Heritage 15/2253H | 3-part Mixed |
Nothing is Gonna Stop Me | Pinkzebra | Pinkzebra 2112011 | SATB |
She Sings | Amy Feldman Bernon | Heritage 15/3281H | SATB |
Meet the Clinician
Bridget Sweet
Bridget Sweet is Professor of Music Education at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. After completing her Bachelors Degree in Music Education at Western Michigan University, Dr. Sweet enjoyed a successful tenure as a middle school choir teacher for nearly ten years. Her interests in adolescent music education intensified during her Masters and Doctoral programs in Music Education at Michigan State University, which contributed to her research focused on characteristics of effective and exemplary middle-level music teachers. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Sweet teaches secondary music education pedagogy, including choral methods and literature, graduate courses in music education, as well as a course focused on the development of healthy practices for all musicians. She is a Licensed Body Mapping Educator through the Association for Body Mapping Education.
Dr. Sweet continues to work extensively with adolescent singers as a teacher, clinician, and conductor; she has been invited to conduct middle and high school All-State Choirs and Honors Choirs in many states. Dr. Sweet wrote the books Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond (2016, Oxford University Press) and Thinking Outside the Voice Box: Adolescent Voice Change in Music Education (2020, Oxford University Press). She co-edited the book Motherhood and Music Education Academy (in press, Oxford University Press). Dr. Sweet’s research interests include middle level choral music education, [assigned at birth] female and male adolescent voice change, musician health and wellness, intersections of LGBTQ+ topics and the music classroom, as well as intersections of motherhood and academia. Her research has appeared in publications of Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Choral Journal, International Journal of Music Education: Research, Journal of Research in Music Education and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. She has authored chapters within The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education (2014), The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education (2023), and The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Queer Studies in Music Education (in press). Dr. Sweet was initiated as a Friend of the Arts to the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity (2021). She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Bulletin of the Council of Research in Music Education and Journal of Research in Music Education.

Note: MCDA does not offer refunds in the event the student cannot attend.
For safety reasons, all rehearsals are closed to the public. Only those who are official chaperones or registered members of the conference (including single day registration) are allowed in the rehearsal space. Please help us maintain the safety of our singers by adhering to these requirements.
For liability reasons, members are not supposed to be official chaperones. But in the event that there was no other option, members still need to register for the conference. Thank you for supporting the organization that supports these ensembles!