SAA Music Program

The Academy's music program is designed to provide knowledge, appreciation and a life-long enjoyment of music through age-appropriate activities and enrichment activities.

Primary students in prekindergarten through second grade attend two music classes per week. These sessions include creative movement, critical listening, and singing and instrumental activities designed to develop basic music skills, concepts and vocabulary. Each month a new composer is studied with life stories and major works highlighted. Primary students present three musical performances each year, two in the fall and one in the spring.

Upper school students in grades three through six participate in one forty-five minute class each week. Here the foundations laid in the Primacy program are reinforced and expanded to include higher level vocal and instrumental performance skills as well as more sophisticated studies of the monthly composer and his works. Melodic and rhythmic tracking and reading, ear-training, creative movement, composition, solo and group singing opportunities are offered. Fourth and fifth grade students also receive instruction in playing the recorder, while sixth graders focus on hand bell techniques. Students in grades three though six attend student-oriented symphony concerts; are offered additional after-school enrichment opportunities; and present a Holiday Program in December and a Mother's Day Concert in May.

In addition, select boys from grades three through eight are invited to join the San Antonio Academy Concert Choir. These singers perform in both school and community settings. The SAA Concert Choir rehearses one morning each week after chapel, with additional rehearsals as needed prior to concerts.