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Tags and Swipes, Fall 2018

Valley Shore Acappella Chorus

Phew! It’s been a long, hot summer! Right after Later in the month, we experienced an upsurge in
contest in Springfield, we met for our annual visitors. We still have some waiting to audition
chorus meeting. Every year, it makes sense to but two have already passed and VSA has two
assess your achievements, evaluate areas where new members!
you fell short and set new goals for improvement.
Our director, Angie Clark, runs an open forum to Emily Levitt joined us first and she sang at her 1
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hear feedback about competition. The whole performance at the Lyme Senior Center in
chorus can share their personal experiences and August. Emily has a terrific Lead voice and we
voice their suggestions for making our chorus a are so pleased to welcome her. In the beginning
more cohesive unit. It’s also a time when we get to of August, Judy Litevich passed her audition as
state our preferences for new music and update our another stellar Lead! Judy is also learning our
repertoire. It’s always exciting to pick out new repertoire at breathtaking speed. Our Lead
songs. We’re currently learning 2 uptunes and 1 Section is growing by leaps and bounds!
Hanukkah song. Great fun!
The beginning of August is also time for another
We didn’t let any grass grow under our feet and wonderful event…RQA Day! Like every year, a
were honored to perform at Middlefield’s Relay contingent of VSA members makes their way to
For Life in June. It is so inspiring to see people University of Hartford to experience amazing
dedicated to supporting the search for a cancer learning opportunities by SAI stars! This year,
cure. Most of us have had a family member or we were fortunate to have Lustre, newly crowned
friend fight the disease, so we always sing with queens, as guest faculty.
hearts full of love for this event. As long as Relay
For Life asks us, we will be there to cheer on this While the focus is on quartets, there is much to
incredible group. absorb from these amazing ladies. We watched
them coach some of our local quartet favorites
and heard some great music. Some of the
quartets being coached were, Vocal Mischief,
Saffron and VOCE! As you know, VOCE will be
competing in ST. Louis in October. It will be
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their 4 year in a row competing at the
International level. We are big fans of VOCE
here at VSA…only partly because Angie Clark is
their Baritone.

We’re also thrilled for Saffron, Region One’s
2018 quartet champs! Some of our VSA
members are travelling to SAI Competition to
watch our Region One contestants in person. We
will be clapping and whooping like crazy for our
song sisters! The rest of us will be glued to the
Web and cheering from home.

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Pia Kroes and new member Emily Levitt
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North Atlantic Region 1 Sweet Adelines