Mid-week

Wednesday afternoon and things are pretty quiet around here. I went over to school to practice with all 3 choirs today. The high school choir concert is a week after the middle school, but Mr. D will be gone several days between the two because of state music teachers conference.

The high school choir is just awesome this year. It is the perfect combination of really musical classes – the 9th grade class is exceptional, and the seniors have quite a few really strong singers, too. Only one year that the choir has both classes, and this is it! Unfortunately the 7th and 8th grade choir is back to normal, which means not terribly good. The last two years it was so good, but now those kids are in high school. But this years 6th grade class shows promise. Time will tell!

The Red Cedar Choir, now under the direction of my favorite high school choir director, Cameron’s Beth Joosten, is really amazing, too. Quite a good number of Cameron graduates and adults “came with her,” so the choir is bigger and has more talent, in addition to having such top-notch direction. Just goes to show that “college” directors are not necessarily better than “high school” directors.