January 10, 2017

  • Watching the Choirs Sing

    On Epiphany Sunday the local Catholic parishes held their third annual Epiphany Concert. The format is always the same, namely each church choir performs 3 selections. While the groups move from the front of the church back to their seats, the audience sings a carol. There were 5 choirs. As a finale they combined as one large group and performed 3 selections with the last being Handel's Messiah Hallelujah Chorus. Since Sparky is a member of the choir, I attended and got there early to snag a seat. This year it was held at St. Joseph's church. Because there was a laissez faire attitude by the organizer in regards to promotion, attendance was pretty sparse. I think everyone there had a family member in the choir. Last year it was standing room only! But it was hosted at my church and our choir director is not a "fly by the seat of your pants" kind of person. She had notices in all the church bulletins, in the diocesan newspaper, and she even had posters printed and put up in the schools, churches and anywhere that would allow them. This year there wasn't anything other than an announcement at the end of Mass.
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    The St. Monica's choir sang second and was by far the best group there. They were missing about 10 people but they still did better than all the others.
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    Sparky was singing on the end and was separated from the rest of the tenors which I'm sure distressed him.
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    A member of one of the other parishes posted this on Facebook of the combined choirs singing the last piece. Not bad in my opinion!

Comments (10)

  • I would have loved to been there. Even as a Methodist I would of come.

    I thought at first the director was male until I saw the feet. :-)

    • Haha! I won't tell Sharon you thought she was a man! She does keep her hair short but mostly because she is a swimmer and if she lets it get long she has issues. We have had many community members attend in the past - this time there was no promotion so no body showed up!

  • I wish we could hear on here! :)

  • How sad that there was no publicity to draw people to this event!

    • Truly. But next year our choir director is going to be in charge again and we will publicize it heavily!! I predict standing room only next year.

  • I listened on FB, but it was only a small part of it. I would have loved to hear the whole thing. Excellent!

  • Love these kinds of get together combined choir events. I remember organizing one for our church some years ago...the black choirs were so very good, I was sorry HTLC included a Negro spiritual as one of our pieces! Your dad suggested next time we try singing one, we should each have a strong drink before time to "loosen up a bit" as he put it! He was right!

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