CONGRATULATIONS Kaitlyn, Claire, Sean, James and Scott

All five who auditioned for the All-State Honor Choir have made it in!!!! I couldn't be prouder, and couldn't be happier. We came, we saw, we kicked it's patootie!!!! (and took names) So, on April 10th, I expect ALL of you to be at Galloway for the concert!!!! WOO HOO!!!!! Good work, SRYC. You earned your place this time.

Raisin' the Bar and Raisin' the Funds

Apparently, we will be searching for a pot of gold, and spending a lot of time in a bar........

ANNOUNCING:

The St. Richard Youth Choir's

SECOND ANNUAL

~~~~~Murder Dinner Theatre~~~~

"Dyin' for a Pint: 

The Mysterious O'Brien Family Pub Murder"

~~~~~~~~~~

There is something afoot at the O'Brien family pub...could it be MURDER?  And where did the old man hide all that gold?  And who are those people that look like they fell off a parade float?

Please join us for an evening of Irish fun. 

There will be a great show, lots of original songs to sing-a-long with, great food, and drink, door prizes and more!!!!

When?    Friday March 26th 7:00 PM

Where?     Foley Hall at St. Richard's

How Much?   $45.00 per adult ticket

                       $15.00 student tickets.

Tickets go on Sale March 1st, so save the date and watch this space (and the bulletin, or call Mrs. C) and be the first to buy a ticket to the show.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARD THE CHOIR'S TRIP TO ROME.  PLEASE HELP US GET TO ROME!!!!

Thank you.

The choir would like to thank BRAVO ITALIAN RESTAURANT for letting us shoot our crazy pictures in their nice restaurant.  Thank you Jeff and Bravo!

Anticipation

"Where, oh where are the State results...
where, oh where can they be,
Where, oh where are the State results,
oh where, oh where can they be?"

tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap

Impatience, concern, worry, anxiety, and various other forms of waiting and wondering are starting to really make us all a bit edgy.   St. Cecilia, St. Gregory, pray for us as we wait please.  Thank you.

ACDA All State Honor Choir Auditions

Wow. What an improvement over last year: we worked HARD, we came ready to play, and we did our very very best. No one left sorry about all the hard work.


The day began with our pomegranate blueberry brain boosting POM drinks, which made for a lot of interesting faces.

And then we marked our cut sets, and practiced in the parking lot, out of the trunk of my car with the keyboard plugged into the adapter in the lighter. Tyler (our wunderkind accompanist) looked really intense as Claire & I held the music down in the 20 mile an hour wind.

Then, we went inside, drank our goo, and got in line to audition. This year, we knew more about what was expected of us, and this year I was allowed to conduct which helped out a lot. We could never have done it without Tyler, and so we give a BIG HATS OFF to Tyler.

To see the rest of the story...click on the slideshow on the sidebar and read the captions...the pictures tell the story the best!!!!

GOOD LUCK GUYS!!! You did a fantastic job, and I am, as ever, very very very proud of all five of you. I hope we have a fighting chance this time.

Mass for Life

We are singing this afternoon at the Mass for Life at St. Richard's. Mass starts at 6:00 PM, and there will be a holy hour before and Benediction following. This is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and there are a lot of activities associated with the church's response. Check out the St. Richard's website (link at the top right of this page) for more information.

Excitement Begins

Looking ahead is quite exciting in the SRYC right now...

• there is an original script for the Murder Dinner Theatre being kept under lock and key and sealed lips as we begin rehearsals this weekend
• there are original songs for the Murder Dinner Theatre piece that are really gonna blow your socks off
• five of our members will audition for the ACDA All State Honor Choir next Saturday, after six MONTHS of work on the six pieces
• we are offering our gifts to God and for St. Richard's to assist with the Mass for Life this Friday
• we will serve at Supper & Substance
• three of our members will sing at the Treble Song Honor Choir performance in February
• we have a Timely Topics presentation on February 28th about Rome (going there, how you can help, how you can join us, what we will sing, how much we can learn and experience, and a brief introduction to the Latin Ordinary)
• then...it's DINNER THEATRE ("Dyin' for a Pint: The O'Brien Pub Murders")
• We sing at the Palm Sunday Vigil Mass
• We sing on Easter Morning at the 8:00AM Mass
• then, hopefully, some of us will be singing at the ACDA Honor Choir in April (St. Cecilia, St. Gregory, pray for us)
• there will be an ALL CHOIRS Mass on the 3rd Sunday of Easter, where the combined force of ALL the children's/Youth choirs will sing together
• and then, our Bead 'N Bake Spring fundraiser
• and as the school year winds down, we will bid our founders a fond farewell as they graduate and head off to college

Pray for your St. Richard Youth Choir...they are going to be busy and exhausted and blessed as we tackle these various difficult and exciting tasks. God Bless us all, and we'll see you AT MASS on Friday!!!!

Making Friends

As we travel, we meet other choirs who also work hard to raise their level of excellence in service at Mass. One of these choirs, St. John's in Cincinnati, Ohio, has shared with our choir some of the work they did at Christmas. They are another Pueri Cantores Choir, and we met them in Chicago at the NPM Invitational Choral Evening Prayer.

Our hats go off to the choristers in Ohio, and we would like you to take a minute and listen to some of their Christmas music.








Good job guys! Keep up the good work. We hope to see you guys in Rome someday...