The "Singing Buckeye" Chorus competed in the JAD (Johnny Appleseed District) Fall Contest Saturday, October 15, and raised our previous score from the Spring. Our contest package ("In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" & "A Little Patch of Heaven . . . Way Out West"was performed in western outfits . . . cowboys by the campfire at the end of a round-up. A picture of the Chorus in our western gear can be found on page 30 of the summer Cider Press, District newsletter: http://www.singjad.com/docs/cider_press/2011_cp_summer.pdf. It was a good weekend for our quartets also with seven Buckeye Quartets performing. We are now waiting to see if our chorus scores are high enough to earn us an "at-large" bid to the BHS International Chorus contest next summer in Portland, Oregon. Here are some comments from our Chorus Director, Chad Wulf:
"It was a fantastic weekend and we are all just recovering. The 51 guys we were able to take up to Lima sang their hearts out and finished with a score of 1405 or 78.1 average. Our spring score was 77.2, so it is a full point higher per judge...which is fantastic.
Perhaps the even more exciting part is that we finished in third place beating Northwest Ohio by 51 points (who beat us in the spring by 4 points) and beating Gary Lewis's chorus Independence by 8 points who beat us to win the District in 2010.
The full sheet is below....
We will talk more on Tuesday about what it all means....we won't know about Portland for a little time still. Our scores put us on the edge of qualifying so we will have to wait until all the districts are finished."
We also had a great showing from all of our quartets. I won't go into it all here but you can check the scores out at the JAD website: http://www.singjad.com/
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