Tonight was the great and wonderful Fall Concert for advanced choirs. We have seven choirs. Four are considered advanced--Varsity Glee Club, Chorale, Chamber Choir, and Singers. After 8 weeks, Singers did 25 minutes of college level repertoire from memory. It was astonishing. Listening to the concert I wondered, "How did I get them to do this?"

Tomorrow we take it on the road. The altos had to sing low E's and high G #'s. Fortunately, that is no problem. We travel to Stetson University where we are being featured as part of their high school honor choir program. We sing Saturday night for a standing room crowd in a 1200 seat auditorium and all the top choral directors in the state are there. Gee. No pressure.

All the choirs did well. Chorale was very disciplined and sang expressively. Glee Club was powerful and made great sounds. Chamber gave a big effort and impressed the listeners. People were amazed by Singers. A professional musician in the crowd thought that this group of girls might be the best ever. I disagree, but that must mean that we are hiding our flaws pretty well. We have climbed the mountain. We learned a major program in 8 weeks.

Lauda Sion by Gyorgy Orban
Deep River arranged by Donald Patriquin
Man Proposes, God Disposes and Birdsong by Charles Davidson
Dome Epais from the Opera Lakme
Cerf-Volant from the movie Les Choristes
Toujours by Gabriel Faure, arranged by Alan Raines
See the Gipsies by Zoltan Kodaly
and last but not least
Sacremento-Sis Joe by Jackson Berkey with four hand piano, marimba and xylophone. We go out with a bang.

Look out Florida. Here we come.