This Sunday evening at 6 o'clock, our SonShiners (a choir for seasoned singers) will be presenting the musical, MEMORIES OF A MERRY CHRISTMAS at First Baptist Church in Humboldt (our handbell choir will ring three songs, as well).
I have really enjoyed working on this project and I know the choir is going to do a great job.
When the preschoolers sing (btw, that is on Wednesday, December 9) you never know what they are going to do. Some cry. Some wave. There's always one who can't take the pressure and runs off the stage to sit with his mommy.
I have great aspirations for this group and hopefully none of these things will happen on Sunday night .. I'm reasonably sure no one will be running off the stage to sit with their mommy because (a) none of them can really move that fast (the musical will last an hour .. the music is only 30 minutes long, but it takes fifteen minutes to get in and fifteen minutes to get out of the choir loft) and (b) most of their mommies would have to be well over a hundred (it's going to be raining Sunday night and they won't get out when it is cold and damp).
During the program three or four of the choir members will be sharing some actual memories they have of Christmases from the past .. a simpler time when there was only one musical Christmas program to worry over.
If I had been thinking ahead I would have added the children's choir to sing at the end.
That way after the senior adults finished, I could get up to lead the bell choir (as the SonShiners leave the stage and the boys and girls enter) and say, "We are now going to ring out the old .. and ring in the new."
Of course, I never think ahead .. or just think, for that matter.
"They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness."
- Psalm 145:7
2 comments:
You said it, we didn't.....it was a great afterthought....
I resemble that remark ..
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