Making Music

The Christmas Concert was a lot of fun. There were about 15 numbers, including one recitation of "There was a Chubby Snowman."  People chose their own songs and not one single one was a repeat. Practically a Christmas miracle.   The concerts give kids and novice musicians a chance to perform, as well as hearing from some super talented friends.

Another reason to host concerts, is it is a good motivator to disembowel your electric piano to fix the clicking keys.

 

Miles ensured Briton kept the hardware in order.

We almost had a real live performance from the Bruno Band, but the first chair violinist decided to go to her high school concert instead.  Something about trying to get an "A" ("kids these days").   Instead, Heidi and I played Sleigh Bells with Conner on the trumpet.  That's as close to a band as we got.   There was a lovely variety in instruments and style of Christmas songs.  From our family, this was the run-down:

Sydney played "Jingle Bells" on the cello.  It turned out to be her last performance before going into retirement.   That's another story, though.

Talmage and I played "O Come, Little Children."    He did great.  If I had photoshop, I'd draw laser beams burning out of our eyes.  This duet was made possible by my mom, who practiced it with Talmage for a week leading up to the concert (she didn't want to perform).

Briton performed "Rudolph" -- much to the audience's entertainment.   A couple friends and I did two numbers as a string ensemble: two cellos, one violin.  Super fun.