Senior co-president Rachel Tarrant and the rest of the Silver Sound choir group are gearing up for a competition in which they will work to model themselves after Glee.
Silver Sound is a competition portion of the choir. They will be headed to a competition in Dallas where they will participate in a Glee-like contest.
“We are very much similar and modeled after Glee,” junior Hannah Briggs said.
The idea of the Silver Sound group promotes the same types of events and issues. But it is not a glee production. This is a new thing we are trying out.
Choir will start practicing for competition once they are finished with fall concert.
“We will practice two hours every week until February,” senior Rachel Tarrant said. “I am very excited to participate in this competition with this extremely talented group of singers and dancers. We have not yet picked the songs because we are focusing on Disturbia, which is a thriller mash up for the fall concert,” Tarrant said.
Competition is in the near future.
“We are doing a number for the fall concert and that’s what we are working on right now,” junior Robyn Arnecke said.
“I do not plan on doing anything involving music outside of high school choir, but choir is a good place to belong, and you can never know too much about music.”
This is the first high school choir group from Austin to go to this competition. Competition was tight due to limited spots on the team.
“It is our elite show choir. There are 24 spots given to the best combination of dancers and singers,” Tarrant said.
“We do more difficult choreography than the regular show choir and we will be competing in Dallas in the spring. We are the first group from Austin to enter this competition, and the hosts will be very excited to have us.”
There are two parts of the choir program that students can qualify to sing for.
“I am in a big show choir and the smaller, competitive one is Silver Sound,” Arnecke said.
Choir is now juggling multiple events that they will be producing and presenting to the public within these upcoming months.