Last year during the Christmas season Jim and I were watching some of the excellent concerts available on t.v. at that time of the year. For about a week you can find some wonderful, inspiring viewing. But it made me sad: I thought, "That part of my life is over. There are no more opportunities for me to play in a good string group, enjoying the unique high of making beautiful music together." The possibilities in our small, rural town had simply "dried up."
Yesterday I was privileged to play in a fine, fun concert. The Sun City Women's Choir, the Sun Cities Chamber Orchestra and Joan Monk, a piano soloist, performed in a very fine concert. It was dedicated to Mardelle, whom we wished to honor for her life and her contributions. I was especially grateful to Mardelle because it was she who invited me to play in that orchestra.
The program was mixed, beginning with the Star Spangled Banner, including The Stars and Stripes Forever, highlighting Joan playing the first movement of the Grieg A Minor Piano Concerto, accompanied by the orchestra and concluding with several numbers by the Women's Choir (a very accomplished group of singers.) Some of the choir numbers were winter/Christmas songs, some were spirituals/Broadway hits. Sometimes the orchestra accompanied the choir, once a single flute did the honours, and once just the cello section. Both the orchestra and the choir are composed of mostly grey/silver haired members. But did we ever make music!
It was just a thrill for me to be in the middle of all that wonderful sound!
Yesterday I was privileged to play in a fine, fun concert. The Sun City Women's Choir, the Sun Cities Chamber Orchestra and Joan Monk, a piano soloist, performed in a very fine concert. It was dedicated to Mardelle, whom we wished to honor for her life and her contributions. I was especially grateful to Mardelle because it was she who invited me to play in that orchestra.
The program was mixed, beginning with the Star Spangled Banner, including The Stars and Stripes Forever, highlighting Joan playing the first movement of the Grieg A Minor Piano Concerto, accompanied by the orchestra and concluding with several numbers by the Women's Choir (a very accomplished group of singers.) Some of the choir numbers were winter/Christmas songs, some were spirituals/Broadway hits. Sometimes the orchestra accompanied the choir, once a single flute did the honours, and once just the cello section. Both the orchestra and the choir are composed of mostly grey/silver haired members. But did we ever make music!
It was just a thrill for me to be in the middle of all that wonderful sound!
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