Financial Needs of the Choir Department
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The choir department serves a large percentage of the Niwot High School population. Our costs are high and our funding is lower than necessary. Below is a breakdown of our annual expenses.
How you can help!!!
Wish List (Items can be donated or purchased with raised funds!)
Honor Choir music and registration costs- $1500/year
All State Choir music and costs- $2000/year
DVD collection of musicals, operas, music history, jazz, et cetera
Musical Songbooks, Choral Resource books
Sight Reading Software
Acoustical tiles for choir room
Musical royalty funds- $4000/year
Awards- $1000/year
Choir music for concerts - at least $5000/year
Food for hungry students!
The choir department serves a large percentage of the Niwot High School population. Our costs are high and our funding is lower than necessary. Below is a breakdown of our annual expenses.
- Choral Music: Each octavo is anywhere from $2.50-$4.00 per student. With approximately 140-150 students each semester, 3-4 selections per concert, and at least 4 concerts per year, this can add up to thousands of dollars per year. We do have a library of music. However, securing selections that are high-quality, appropriate, and challenging enough for today’s students often requires a new purchase.
- Festivals: Each year choirs attend Choral Festivals. These festivals include registration fees (often of several hundred dollars), bus fees, and fees to hire substitute teachers.
- Hiring instrumentalists: Professional musicians are often the most appropriate choice to accompany concerts for students.
- Field trips: Often, we have a chance to visit a college choral program, see a musical, or recruit members for choir from the middle school. This requires bus money and funds for a substitute.
- Awards/senior roses: We like to honor our students for their accomplishments, and the awards can become costly with many students lettering and receiving plaques.
- Equipment purchase/repair: piano benches, tunings, small percussion equipment, pitch pipes, metronomes, choral risers, et cetera. We are particularly interested in purchasing acoustical tiles and chairs for the choir room.
- Annual musical: royalties, props, costumes, sets, microphones, program printing, advertisement, lighting, etc.
- Copy Paper- white and colored
How you can help!!!
- Support our fundraising efforts by becoming involved!
- Participate in or help organize a fundraiser for the choirs.
- Make a donation. You can specify the item you would like to purchase, or you can donate choral music for a specific concert or selection. We will happily write your name as a donor under the selection in the program. We will also happily include your name on the back of the program under “Choir angels.” We take cash or check (made out to Niwot High School, with “choir” in the memo.)
Wish List (Items can be donated or purchased with raised funds!)
Honor Choir music and registration costs- $1500/year
All State Choir music and costs- $2000/year
DVD collection of musicals, operas, music history, jazz, et cetera
Musical Songbooks, Choral Resource books
Sight Reading Software
Acoustical tiles for choir room
Musical royalty funds- $4000/year
Awards- $1000/year
Choir music for concerts - at least $5000/year
Food for hungry students!