It’s been a wonderful, hectic, music-filled month, and it’s not over yet! Here’s a summary of the concerts and activities that have enriched our lives during the past three weeks:
• Five horns harmonizing (Dec. 8: Louisa’s French horn section played during Winter Walk)
• Two Lucias processing (Dec. 9: Louisa was a Lucia attendant at the Northfield Swedish Club’s 36th annual Lucia fest)
• Ten fingers dancing (Dec. 9: Steve, Louisa and I attended a piano recital given by Ina Selvelieva, a visiting professor of music at St. Olaf and the pianist for Little Women, the Musical)
• One hundred forty-five youth choir members rejoicing (Dec. 10: Louisa and Sebastian performed in the Northfield Youth Choirs winter concert at Carleton’s Skinner Chapel; Steve joined in on two of the large group pieces)
• Four drummers drumming (Dec. 13: Elias sang at the Greenvale Park choir and band concert, which included an enthusiastic percussion piece)
• Seven orchestras bowing (Dec. 15: Sebastian played in the middle school and high school orchestra concert)
• Twenty-eight students singing (Dec. 16: Elias performed a music program with his fifth grade class)
• And a standing ovation at the Orpheum (Dec. 16: Steve and I took our kids and his parents to see Les Miserables at the Orpheum)
Because we will be in Iowa for Christmas, spending time with Steve’s parents and his sisters and their families, we are having our own little family celebration tomorrow evening. We will continue our tradition (borrowed from my childhood) of having each person either perform a song or read a Christmas-related story or poem before we open gifts. I haven’t decided yet what I’m doing; the last-minute preparation is part of the excitement.
It’s hard to believe that 2011 is drawing to a close. I am eager to see what musical pleasures await us in 2012!
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