The Indianapolis Youth Chorale Choir last evening at the Angels Sing concert. Matt is in the center in the back row looking dashing in his tux.
The left side of the ending numbers...just to show you how huge this was...and now, the right side, followed by the middle section, but even then, I didn't get them all...this was the best I could do with my camera for the two songs that all the groups sang together at the end of the concert...very wonderful!
So, Where's Waldo/Matt? In the middle section, he is on the far left side, about four rows up, you can see the entire front of his tux vest. And, last but not least, our requisite photo of Matt and Ali at all things choir and/or swimming.
(You can click on the photos to enlarge.)
We are in the final countdown with the Christmas Concert singing gigs...one IYC one on Monday night yet and then the Guerin Choir one on Wednesday night. Whew...the kids have been taping, recording, and singing this week since Wednesday, with two performances yesterday. Here are a few photos. This concert is huge, and yet it was only the top four choirs last night...yesterday afternoon being all the lower choirs plus Matt's IYC choir (the big guns so the little kids/families can see where they are headed).
Last night there was one huge, everyone-excitingly-leaping-to-their-feet-at-the-conclusion-of-it, ovation, and that was Matt's choir on "Oh Holy Night"...it was fantastic. Really outstanding, and believe me, this audience is spoiled with the ICC and they know outstanding. It was just beautiful.
After the performance, I turned to Mark and said, "What's the game plan?" He replied, "Well, I guess same as every year, we try to locate Matt or Ali, hook up with Buddy and Lauri (Ali's parents), and figure sooner or later we will have seen almost everyone here...probably over a thousand people." And he was not kidding. We always just sort of work our way to the middle and stand there, as at this stage of the game, we have learned that Matt and Ali are very popular with the kids and adults and it will be at least an hour before they are finished greeting and hugging and chatting with everyone there. Mark has his own following, of course, having a great degree of popularity with the kids and parents as he has chaperoned countless concerts and three overseas tours...I was looking forward to seeing past graduates, kids that didn't get to move to IYC this year but will next, parents, choir directors, etc....Buddy and Laurie have their own following, Laurie being a big hugger of anything that moves as she is so sweet, and Buddy, well you just have to know Buddy to know that where Buddy goes, there is a party. All in all, trying to get Ali and Matt out the door before there was anything but a handful of people left was like, as the saying goes, trying to nail Jello to a wall. They were here, they were there, they were everywhere having the greatest time. And so did we...and I don't say that lightly as all these Christmas festivities and frivolity are cutting into my BTN time court side, so we had to ti-vo the IU game this evening while we were out.
The nice thing about the Christmas season is that one could have date night each night of the week with all the festivities going on...and it is always nice to be out and about with my better half.
Snow? Did we get snow? Don't ask...everything is pretty much at a standstill here this morning with five inches of snow and the wind blowing it all about here and there. Cold, windy, snowy, icy, slick...only necessary trips out today...there is a comfy chair, a good book, some Christmas baking, and a warm fire going on around here...what's up over there?