Thursday, December 16, 2010

A Holiday Concert

Yesterday, 15 December, Katy arrived in SLC and Kris and I picked her up. We lunched at Greek Souvlaki and then drove through Salt Lake (twice because of a wrong turn on I-80).

Emily came by the house after the kids finished school so they could see Katy and she invited us to accompany them to Wasatch's choir program. It was really good!

Thankfully, there was nothing even close to Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, both of which I really don't care for even the tiniest bit. Instead they sang numbers like I Saw Three Ships, Il Est Ne (3rd Grade Choir [in very-good French]), Ding! Dong! Merrily on High, Pie Jesu, Handel's O Sing Out With Pleasure, and Thank You Very Much from Scrooge, all of which I adore! Well done Max and the "Best School in the Land!"

Young Mawell Gaylord Ensign of
the Wasatch School 5th grade

Please be sure to enlarge this one and look at the
young lass two away from Max: hysterical!

Mr. Peterson conducts the Concert Choir

The happy and well-rewarded concert goers

This music program is all run by volunteers without any budget, and they practice before and after school. The commitment paid off because the 3rd Grade Choir and Max's Concert Choir are both really are great!

Thanks for the invitation, Emily. This was a holiday highlight.

That's all for now.

OXO

D.

4 comments:

AnneMarie said...

Oh I wish our school had a choir progam such as this. What a fun evening! And Hello to KatyDid.

Courtney said...

Nothing beats a good holiday concert to get you in the spirit. Well done. And I think I'm in love with that girl. I'm so glad that moment was captured on film.

Anna said...

How fun! Wish we could have been there. Sounds mahhhvelous.

Katy Kathryn said...

Hello to you too AnneMarie! That girl Eve was HYSTERICAL!!! She turned her belt into a scarf slowly but surely throughout the concert. Max was splendid trying not to lock his knees and the song choices were very good even politically correct (Who knew that we would even want to sing songs about the Jews and Hanukkah? ) Thanks for the invite and I'm just so pleased to be here. Anna, you were being channelled the entire time (all day and well into the concert!)