Friday, December 19, 2008

CHIME CHOIR

I can't say it enough...I love my job! And the "cherry on top" is directing the school chime choir. I held auditions back in September and selected twelve great kids to be in the chime choir. We've had rehearsals every week since then, getting ready for our Christmas performances. This Christmas season has been awesome, but also insanely busy for us. We've performed multiple times in December, today was our final performance for the parents at our school.
Last Wednesday evening we did a forty-minute show for the shoppers at University Mall. That was so much fun. Most of the people walking by had never seen a chime choir before and had no idea what we were doing, but it sounded so magical and wonderful that they had to stop and listen. Chimes are similar to handbells and have the most beautiful, clear ringing tone.
One of our most exciting performances was on the morning of December 10th when we made an appearance on live TV! Fox 13 morning news sent a reporter to our school. If you'd like to watch it, here is the link. Scroll down to the side video links, select the second link from the bottom and click the "play" arrow.

OK, that was our first performance of the year, so it was far from perfect but I was just grateful we got through it. For days afterwards I got comments from people who had seen us on TV. Pretty cool!