WHO WE ARE

OUR PROGRAM:
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The Broken Arrow Vocal Music Program strives each day to achieve musical excellence while encouraging students to explore their individual musical abilities. Each year the program continues to improve and grow, becoming a leading vocal music program in the region. The Vocal Music Program consists of 5 middle schools, 1 Freshman Academy (9th grade), and 1 Senior High School (10th, 11th, and 12th grades). The Senior High School and Freshman Academy have 6 choirs each that meet within the school day.

Each middle school site is proud to host a show choir that is open to auditions each year for students in 6th through 8th grades.  Our Freshman Academy is home to a 9th grade mixed show choir.  Broken Arrow Senior High Show Choirs consist of a varsity mixed choir called Tiger Rhythm and a varsity women's choir called Tiger Mystique. Show choirs are comprised of students who love to sing and dance performing songs from varying genres. Show choirs meet for extra rehearsals throughout the week before and after school. The Tiger Momentum Show Choir (Freshman Academy), Tiger Rhythm & Tiger Mystique Show Choirs (Senior High) have won numerous awards in recent years and continue a long legacy of excellence and prestige. Broken Arrow Show Choirs aim to provide a unique blend of song and dance entertainment while representing our community locally and nationally.

The Vocal Music Program also offers several Concert and Select Choirs open to 6th-12th grades. These choirs can be auditioned or non-auditioned depending on the site. The goal of the Select and Concert Choirs is to offer a solid foundation to each student’s music education while allowing performance opportunities to all students.  Vocal Music is proud to teach any student who wishes to make music and provide him or her access to knowledge to do just that.

All students in the BA Vocal Music Program are given the opportunity to audition for honor choirs throughout the state and nation. In recent years, Broken Arrow has boasted large numbers of participants in the OCDA Junior High All-State Chorus and the OMEA High School All-State Chorus as well as other national honor choirs.  These elite honor choirs provide enriching experiences for both teachers and students in the Vocal Music Program.

Broken Arrow Senior High School choirs have sang with industry professionals including Kenny Ortega, Kristin Chenoweth, Sandi Patty, and Patti LuPone.  They have performed in Carnegie Hall, Ryman Auditorium, and the Genesee Theatre.
OUR MISSION:

The mission of the BAPS Department of Choral Activities is to provide students a community within the school that promotes a sense of belonging through acceptance of all people, provide a safe place to express vulnerability and value all individuals as equals, and enhance the benefits of attending school.
 
OUR GOALS:
  1. Develop interpersonal communication skills both through art and performance as well as verbal and professional interactions.
  2. Develop an analytical, creative, and intuitive understanding of music as a universal, pan-cultural language.
  3. Develop an understanding within students of the value and inspiration that music provides in supporting cultural and societal unity, and enhance the ability of students to develop critical cognitive skills.
  4. Afford students opportunities for cultural and aesthetic experiences through active participation in music which will enhance their understanding and appreciation of the arts while validating and supporting all other academic endeavors.
  5. Enhance cultural and aesthetic experiences for Broken Arrow High School, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and the Region through the development of excellence in the field of singing, and in the presentation of recitals, concerts, workshops, festivals, competitions, and master classes.
  6. Promote understanding of historical significance as it relates both directly and indirectly to choral music and music in general.
  7. Provide opportunities that will connect student experiences in singing to a global citizenship and the responsibilities therein.
  8.  Value music’s ability to express the uniqueness that defines humanity both within our own culture and community as well as all others.
  9. Provide learning experiences that are auditory, visual, and metaphysical.​