Church Musical Performances

 December sure keeps me busy with lots of special musical numbers! This year was no exception. ere are pictures and lots of videos of some of the performances we participated in:

The Men's quartet I picked for this year was "With Wondering Awe". I picked it because it is an up-beat song, not too tricky, and not overly-played but still familiar. The guys did a great job, but I don't have a video unfortunately.

This year we had an official Ward Christmas Party, December 16 the same day as my recital. Last year, the party got cancelled due to rain. This year had a full program and full dinner. It was okay. It was a little too serious but we enjoyed listening to the musical numbers. For some reason I offered to perform a clarinet duet with Elisa, even though I hadn't play much clarinet in the past 20 years haha! I chose Gabe to be our accompanist. I knew Ian could do it just as well, but I really wanted Gabe to do it. It was a struggle to get him to practice it and play it half decent, but in the end he pulled it off pretty well, despite a little oopsie at the beginning and the end. Elisa was willing to practice, she squeaked a lot at the beginning of our practicing, but by the performance she was down to only one squeak. I ended up using my old clarinet because Elisa had a hard time playing it, and I let her use my nice real wood Yamaha one that I bought off some ASU college kid not to long ago. The lights were so bright in my eyes while I was performing that I didn't see any audience at all! I played piano for another musical number that we practiced at our house called "O Little One Sweet". Unfortunately, no one NO ONE took a video. Erik sang bass. The Piano Guys to a version of the song, but our version went a little quicker.

    

Here is my clarinet duet with Elisa. 

Erik singing in the ward choir

Here is the video of the primary singing. I don't think they knew the words very well.

Eating dinner. It was only just okay. Maybe I just wasn't very hungry.

Elisa invited her friend Jayde along

A Christmas family picture.

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Click here for the piano/organ "O Holy Night" duet that we performed Sunday Dec. 17. This was probably the roughest run-through, the performance was better thankfully. I have a recording of the performance but I can't figure out how to upload voice memos on to blogger--if its even possible. This was recorded not long into our run-throughs, just to get the balance right.

Dec. 17

Erik likes to sing in the ward choir. Here is a picture I snuck while they performed.

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