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| Daddy's Little Girl |
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| A Picture Tells 1000 Words. |
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| Easter's Choral Service |
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| You Can't See the Second Clarinet but He's There. . . doubling on Triangle |
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| The Photos is Distorted but Shows the Full Orchestra and Handbells |
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| The 3:30 Recital Group |
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| Full Company |
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| Great Kids-Calvin behind the Plexiglass |
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| The 1:30 Recital Group |
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| Jazz Ensemble in the Back with the Smoke |
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| The Finale |
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| Amazing Cookies |
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| Okay, I Did NOT, Cry Through the Whole Second Recital Last Piece, Only the First. . . |
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| The Last Year of CDs |
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| Friends and Family |
It's been a great season. There has been so much good music. There is so much music in the Twin Cities it's impossible to see it all, but the three events that we were involved in, were filled with good music and good people. Between Kotrba Piano Studio alumni I got to see at Bravo and piano kids at the choral service and all the friends and family who came out to see it all, it was just an amazing show of community and the joy of music. I'm actually sad it's all over.
I'm so proud of the piano kids at our recitals. Thanks to the children and parents who worked so hard and put so much love into it.
The Bravo show at Eastview. I'm overwhelmed by the talent of the high school kids in our district. The layers of talent are so deep. It's not just one or two kids that are talented, it's hundreds. How do you get that? It's Mrs. Schoen the elementary music school teacher giving every child a speaking or singing solo on the program every year. It's the youth choir programs the folks around here foster.
Our choral service was really special. I loved every minute of it. Full orchestra, handbells, piano, organ, choir. It was just so lovely.
Calvin's CD is out. That's number eleven on my list of favorite Christmas Music. This year's CD has a few new tracks and a few greatest hits. And it feeds more than a few children. Email me and we will send you one, suggested donation $10 and 100% of it goes to Feed My Starving Children.
What do all these performances and projects have in common? A studio recital? A school variety show? A church music program? A kid's "homemade" Christmas CD?
The sum is greater than the parts. The friends who sang and played on the CD made it a memory, not just a recording. The Bravo dancers, singers, rappers, jazz ensemble and crew work together for an event that is so much greater than any of them on their own. All these events pulled together so many different kinds of musicians of different ages and abilities and it all just weaves together into something so amazing. A community. A musical community.
There were tears shed. Calvin's last Christmas piano recital. The whole front row of senior Bravo girls bawled their heads off during the finale of the last show. (You get to see these things from the third row). I was moved to tears during several of our choir pieces.
I'm just thankful and happy I got to be a part of it all.
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