Wachet auf, singers!
Okay, we’ve had our nap. Seven, almost eight weeks of choral slumber have passed, and it’s beginning to look like morning. Tomorrow (Sunday) will bring the Point Loma University Concert Choir to Ontario First Nazarene at 10:45 a.m., then on 25 Feb., there will be a little choral music in the globe circling program of the Pomona Valley Musicians’ Club program at Trinity UMC of Pomona, and then it’s March, which starts with a celebration of the Mountainside Master Chorale’s twenty years of singing together. on the 1st and 2nd.
There will be more to say about March soon enough, with Mountainside, the Claremont Chorale, the Inland Master Chorale, Cal Poly Pomona, and the Repertory Opera Company all singing for us, and more, but that can wait. For now, just note that the tempo of music is beginning to change as we gradually approach our second peak of the year.
A little something to consider?
Whenever possible, this project highlights examples of groups and people working together for the good of music for all. Coming to mind is the fifteen or sixteen kids I saw at the Repertory Opera Company’s Serenades a week ago. They acted, danced and certainly sang and seemed to enjoy the discipline. Apparently this is a long term project of the ROC, beginning with some connections to one of our local music schools.
Building relationships with others to the benefit of both can be a difficult process, so it’s good to hear where it is working. It would be good to hear of more such things from those reading this, so that more people can see that it is possible.
Thinking today of young people singing, we’ll flash back to something another youth choir sang every Sunday years ago, but done by a choir a bit bigger and better.
The Westminster Choir College: The Lord Bless You and Keep You