Greetings, all!

Happy spring! It didn't feel like it today, but I'm hopeful that we start to feel spring a little more every day!

Hope to see you all tomorrow night at Pius HS! I'd like to start work on the Mozart Laudate Dominum, a very cool piece that was a popular work performed by both MCC and VAA in the past. But...we need a full house to rehearse it and learn it!

Tomorrow night is our last rehearsal before Spring Break. There will be no rehearsal on March 30 and April 6, so please be there tomorrow!

Emily Crocker

Hope to see you Monday!

Hello all,

I hope you enjoyed your week. It's fun to see the ground again! (My Texas friends will not understand that statement!)

We had a small & sweet turn-out last week. Hope to see all of you there tomorrow night - we have only a few weeks to pull together some fun music.

Plus, I love getting to hang with my favorite Milwaukee peeps!

See you at Pius at 7:00 PM Monday! And Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Emily Crocker

Thanks and congrats!

Dear VAA singers,

Thank you for a wonderful concert! It really came together and you performed beautifully this afternoon!

Our next concert is going to be a retrospective on music that I have performed with MCC and VAA through the years, leading up to our final concert on May 17 in which we invite the old boys & girls back to perform with us.

I think you will have a lot of fun learning and performing this music.

Our upcoming schedule includes

Monday, March 9, 16, 23 - regular rehearsals at Pius

Monday, March 30, April 6 - no rehearsal, spring break

Monday, April 13 - rehearsals resume

We'll see you tomorrow at 7:00 for rehearsal and some post-concert goodies!

Emily Crocker

I Have a Song To Sing

At last!

I'm back in Milwaukee to stay for a while! And just in time to hear the wonderful singing of VAA!

Here is our schedule for the week leading up to our concert on Sunday, March 8 "I Have a Song To Sing."

Monday, March 1 - regular rehearsal at Pius HS. Bel Canto Boy Choir will join us that night.

Thursday, March 5 - 6:15-7:30 extra rehearsal with Bel Canto Boy Choir at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center.

Sunday, March 8 - 3:00 PM, Concert at Pius HS, Call time 2:15.

Please make this week a priority for VAA and we'll have a fantastic week of music.

See you tomorrow at Pius!

Emily Crocker

Rehearsal cancelled 2/23

Hello,

Hopefully you got the remind.com message that rehearsal is cancelled for tonight. I'm sorry to do that, but due to some travel difficulties, it was the best decision at this point.

Please spend some time working on your music, especially "The Seal Lullaby." Here is a link to Eric Whitacre's choir: YouTube of Seal Lullaby.

We'll see you next week on March 2 at Pius.

Stay warm!

Emily Crocker

Home to Milwaukee!

Emily outside Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth

Hello to all VAA singers & parents,

I've had a wonderful time in Texas, but the frozen tundra is calling so on Friday Dean & I and Maizy the cat will be returning to Wisconsin.

Tomorrow night you will have your last rehearsal with Ellen Shuler. I'll see you at next week's rehearsal, February 23.

I really, really, really appreciate Ellen Shuler and her fine work with you as guest conductor and thanks to you all for being such dedicated singers. I can't wait to hear the results next week!

Our March schedule is:

Monday, March 1 - regular rehearsal at Pius HS. Bel Canto Boy Choir will join us that night.

Thursday, March 5 - 6:15-7:30 extra rehearsal with Bel Canto Boy Choir at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center.

Sunday, March 8 - 3:00 PM, Concert at Pius HS, Call time 2:15.

Monday, March 9, 16, 23 - regular rehearsals at Pius

Monday, March 30, April 6 - no rehearsals, Spring Break

So stay warm & I'll see you in a week!

Emily Crocker

Hello from Texas!

Hi everyone,

Hope you are surviving the blizzard in Milwaukee today. I'm certainly glad to be missing it!

The weather has been beautiful here in Fort Worth and I've seen lots of family and friends. I believe we have had more Mexican food in the last week than we had in the last year! We'll have to move on to Bar-B-Q!

I miss you all, but Mrs. Shuler says you are doing great. We're planning to Skype on Monday night, so I hope you will all be there, assuming the weather clears up.

The picture here is from the Fort Worth rodeo. We also toured the stock show which is like the State Fair, with livestock exhibitions, equipment exhibits, western wear and the like.

I'll be back on Feb. 23, looking forward to hearing great progress from the Vocal Arts Academy!

Emily Crocker