Eligibility of Students in Extracurricular Activities
No Pass...No Play: A
student who receives, at the end of any grading period, a grade below 70 in any
academic class (other than an identified advanced class) may not participate in
extracurricular activities for at least three school weeks. An ineligible
student may practice or rehearse, however. The student gains eligibility when
the teachers and principal determine that he or she as: 1) earned a passing grade
in all academic classes, AND 2) completed three school weeks of ineligibility.
In
addition to contests, any performance to which tickets to the
performance are sold is considered extracurricular and subject to the No
Pass, No Play rule stated above.
descriptions of Extracurricular choral contests
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) at the University of Texas
at Austin
sponsors two regional choral music contests.
1. Solo and Ensemble Contest - Choral students that volunteer to
enter this contest will sing a memorized vocal solo while being accompanied by
a pianist. The selected music must be chosen from a Prescribed Music List (PML)
published by the UIL and approved by the Director of Choral Activities. There
are two classifications of vocal solos...medium difficulty (Class II) and
advanced (Class I).
2.
Concert
and Sight-Reading Contest
- All choral students at PHS will
compete at this contest. In the concert portion of the contest, each choir will
perform three prepared selections for three judges. Afterwards, they will
sight-read a selection of music for three additional judges.
The Texas Music Educators
Association (TMEA) sponsors a series of district, region, area, and state
auditions.
1.
First
(All-District Choir) Audition -
The
top 24 students in each of the eight vocal sections (Soprano I, Soprano II,
Alto I, Alto II, Tenor I, Tenor II, Bass I, and Bass II) will be chosen from
the East Zone and 24 students from the West Zone. The winners will be announced
at the conclusion of the contest. Those 48 students will advance to the next
level…
2.
Second
(All-Region Choir) Audition
- The top 48 singers in each section from the last audition will compete. The
top 12 students in each section at this contest earn membership into the
All-Region Choir. They will receive a patch and will be required to attend the
All-Region Clinic and Concert in November. They also qualify to audition for
the next level…
3.
Third
(Pre-Area) Choir Audition
- The 12 advancing singers from each section from the previous contest will,
for the first time in the audition process, audition twice...once singing the
literature and a second time sight-reading a line of music. These winners
will be announced at the conclusion of the All-Region Choir Concert. The top 5
students from each section chosen will advance to the last level…
4.
Texas All-State Choir Audition - The top 5 singers from each section
in Region VII will join the top 5 singers in each section from three other
regions of Texas
to audition for the Texas All State Choir. From the 20 students in each
section, the top 4 will be named to the Texas All State Mixed Choir. The treble
singers that finish in places 5-10 will be named to the All State Treble Choir.
The tenor-bass singers that finish in places 5-8 will be named to the All State
Men’s Choir. The Texas All-State Choirs will perform in San Antonio at the Texas Music Educators
Association Convention in February.
