Belated Happy thanksgiving. Coldn't get to my blog for a olong time. Nothing much to say about the holiday itself except that it was a nice time with extended family and lots of food. four generations under one roof on my borothe's sid3e. His great grandsdaughter is almost two, and the star of the evening.
The highlifht for me was getting to hear a recording of one of my gransndsons' choir perforan ces. He's a senior in highschool and had qualified for the regional hojors choir which put on this show. I can't find him in the crowd onstage but the music was lovely. all the kids were chosen for their ability to sinbg well, on pitche, read music, etc etc etc and they sound great.
There is a boys choir,m a girls choir and a mixed choir but all his dad recorded was the boys choir. Maybe they call it mens rather than boys. tghey sound likje jmen. There's everything from two tenors to a baritone and a basss secrtion. My daughter set me up with a set of ear hones that enabled me to experience it in wonderful sterio with great clarity and i8t reduced me to tears it was dso beuatufiul.
I think it was more than the music itself that so affected me, but the fact that threse are teenage boys, from fourteen to eighteen or so, and who expects such beaturfy from that age roup? My grandson said he wants to be in the chorus because of the experienc3ew of being surrounded by such lovely blended sounsds, and that's my experience listening to it with these head phones. He also played for me his own collection of the girls choir and the mixed choir and they are great too, and I'ld like to have a copy of those as well, but I think there's something abut the fact that boys can produce such musical loveliness that affects me the most. boys get such a bad rap in our culture these days, and this performance reduced me to tears of hope for the recorvery of some of our lost westernculture.
Intelligence, professionalism, musical skills of all kinds from pitch to timing to modulation to tonality.
Here's the youtube channel: @joemitola5178
there's a woman's head in the way so you have to see around her, and there are some background noiceses from time to time but not too bad I hope.
