Life of Wry

Our nephew Matthew sang tonight in a UCD Department of Music concert in the new Pitzer Center. He sings with the chamber singers, a smaller subset of the choruses who performed tonight, closing out the program with five lovely pieces. He was great!

In addition to the chamber singers, there were two concert choirs. One comprised sopranos and altos and the other tenors, bases and baritones… something he clarified for us afterward.

The final piece tonight wasn’t even on the program and was the most exciting. As the choir director announced the song, both choirs and the chamber singers emerged from backstage to surround the audience. Then they performed a rousing rendition of This Little Light of Mine. Very fun!

This may have been the first choral concert either Jim or I had ever been to. The next one will undoubtedly be Matthew’s next performance.. whenever that is.

Between the Pitzer Center and our house (about half a mile along A St), we passed lots of night life: parties, packs of minimally-clad students, a police presence at the Hillel House (just heightened security for an event, it looked like), music emanating from frat houses.. typical Friday on a warm near-spring evening.

Matthew is in the back row, second from left. (Reading the program now, I see photos and audio recordings were prohibited.. oops.)