Sarah's Christmas Concert

I wanted to open this post with a picture, but for some reason, I can't get my camera to upload any pictures. So let me just say that Sarah had her concert last week and she looked very pretty, if you could ignore her ugly choir dress. Apparently they were supposed to look like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, who despite their amazing voices always wears the ugliest dresses you could find.

Now for the music. Sarah is in the Advanced Choir and they sounded good. Sarah practiced and practiced until she couldn't get the songs out of her head. My favorite one that her choir did was "Were You There on That Christmas Night?" More about that one later. Then we heard other choirs and the guitar students.
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I just want to say that yet again, Mr. Blackburn chose some odd songs for the kids to sing. They did "Silent Night" in Hawaiian, complete with hula dancer. If you want to sing that song in another language, what's wrong with the original German? And he had the Beginning and Advanced Girls sing the Hallelujah Chorus. Great song, but maybe not the best choice for 13 and 14 year olds.

The best song of the night, by far, was "No Time." I wish I could have found the lyrics online, but none of the sites I checked had the right words. It's all about the Second Coming and how there is no time left to tarry or wait for anyone else. It brought me to tears, but I have to admit that I'm easily moved by music.

Sarah was especially glad that her grandparents got to come and hear her sing. My dad used to be a professional musician, so he was not easy to impress. But he thought Sarah's choir was one of the best of the night. Oh, and they gave 2 concerts that night. We went to the second, and that was the one that had most of the lights in the auditorium malfunctioning. Sarah said they sounded better in the first concert because they strained their voices and weren't at their best by the late concert. But I couldn't tell. Nice job, Sarah!