Ok – maybe some more information is needed here. At Cassidy’s spring recital we performed at the First Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake. It is a beautiful building with lots of stained glass and old world feel.
Most of the performers ended up sitting on folding chairs, but I got one of the big red comfy chairs on the stand and everyone gave me a hard time about it. It was nice to have a comfy-ish chair (one of the springs was sprung which made for an occasional interesting sitting position). The concert was done in two parts – so 5 hours in the chair was certainly better than 5 hours in a folding chair.
The concert itself was fun – the first session was horrible – the microphones weren’t working well, the choir couldn’t really hear ourselves sing, and it just was blah. The solos (including Cassidys) were really nice, but everything else about the first session was very forgettable. For instance – we were to start the concert at 5pm but the drummer didn’t actually arrive at the church until 5:10pm. It was a definite harbinger of doom.
For as bad as the first session went, the second session went pretty well. We had better energy and the mic problems were resolved. Things just seemed to flow much better and the choir stepped it up to back up the solos and perform fairly well on the group numbers.
The concert was titled “From Bach to Sacred Rock”. It tracked the history of western sacred music from gregorian chants, to the Baroque period, through the Classical and Romantic periods, to the 20th Century. I particularly enjoyed singing portions of Mozart’s Requiem. I know Cassidy doesn’t really get into singing in other languages but I think it is pretty cool.
All in all – a long evening, but a good one. Cassidy did great and I came along for the ride – in my big red chair.
