PMEA District 2 - Chorus Selection Procedures

1. If provided, each school is guaranteed its appropriate quota as indicated on the director's preference list.

2. Additional singers are taken only from schools providing appropriate quota and additional singers.

The order of remaining schools within each quota category will be determined by drawing the school names from a hat at random to determine the order. The order of quota category is also determined by random draw. The selection committee at the selection meeting will accomplish this.

The selection of additional singers is based on need and comes from additional singer's section of director's preference list.

One student will be selected for each voice section in addition to those for the required instrumentation during the regular selection process. This person will be the alternate who will replace any cancellation in the section prior to the festival. This will make the host's job much easier by having this person identified in advance and not having to go back through the process and try and guess whom the next person would have been.

Courtesy appointments will be made if:

-the student is the child of the director

-the student attends the director's school

-the student is listed in the first available spot under additional students on director's preference list and is labeled "courtesy" (Feb. '96)

One additional copy of all district chorus music is to be sent to the director of all participating schools.

THIS MUST BE INCLUDED WITH FIRST MAILING TO SCHOOLS FOR CHORAL FESTIVALS: Anyone may audition for accompanist. This person does not have to be a selected singer but must be tried out as a singer if selected. THIS PERSON MUST ACCOMPANY CHORUS IN THE HOME SCHOOL. This person is in addition to the home school quota. The guest director may choose to use his/her own accompanist.