Give the kids a fighting chance…
Tonight Jen and I attended our nephews elementary choir and band Holiday concert. I left thinking two things.
First, I apologize to my Dad and Mom for putting them through that in sixth grade. This band was small. My sixth grade band, with me on the alto sax-a-ma-phone, was double the size of this one. Which means double the awful!
Which brings me to my next thought: we gotta beef up the NEA! I think the band played Jingle Bells. However, it could have been the horn part at the end of Radioheads “National Anthem.” The string quartet played with string tracks. That’s not fair to the studio musicians!
The choir, however, was great! The choreography… not so much. Remember in school chorus and Melissa Gilbert and Natalie Jenson choreographed hand gestures to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” It was all in vain, you can’t successfully perform hand gestures when your shoulder to shoulder.
Besides my nephews speaking part, the highlight of the night was the “pee kid” who wasn’t allowed on the risers. He had to stand on his knees and hardly be seen just to the right of the stage. The “pee kid” deserves a speaking part, too!
