District Music Festival

By: Bre Crockett, Contributing Writer

Each year, high school students who want to push themselves musically have the option to perform a solo or small ensemble on their instrument of choice or through choir. From there, students work with their music instructor to find a musical piece that is allowed that year through MSHSAA. Once their piece is selected in January, they practice their music for about two months, and then the District 18 Music Festival takes place.

These students listed below attended the District 18 Music Festival at Mexico High School on March 16. While performing, a judge sits in the room and adjudicates their musical integrity based on the piece of music and how well they performed. The rankings given to the students are based on individual performance and have many ways to be described. However, to put it in the simplest of terms here, and since no one scored any lower than a silver ranking, we will refer to them as gold medalists and silver medalists, even though there are three rankings below that.

Below, there are pictures of each of the students captioned with their musical group and the piece(s) they performed. The students are also sorted out between who got gold medals and who got silver. Those who received a gold ranking at districts will progress on to the Missouri State Music Festival on April 26, where students from all over Missouri will go to perform. Additionally, for the first time in a few years, each musical group (that being wind instruments, string instruments and vocals) will be represented for our school this year at the state level! Wish them luck on their state performances!

To see the whole photo and caption, click the pictures below.

Gold medalists/state qualifiers.

Silver medalists.

Not pictured: Percussionist Elijah Hill performed ​Colonial Capers by John Beck.