Tue, 04 May 2010
sunshine and musicSince it is the last month of school, there are a lot of end of the year concerts, shows, parties, projects, field trips, etc. This week was no exception. Thomas had an orchestra concert. It was fun to listen to his fifth grade group, but also fun to see the progression of improvement through sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. I hope Thomas will stick with this. He sounds pretty good already. The orchestra teacher does a great job. Thomas will have him next year also at the middle school.
Thomas' musical skills are very good. I must question his reading skills though. On the night of the piano recital,he wanted to have a friend over. I asked him to go and double check the flyer for the exact time of the recital. "Is it at 6 or 7?" I trustingly ask. Now, in retrospect I should have known better, but I am a trusting soul, and I guess too lazy to walk to the other room to see the flyer for myself. Thomas got to have a friend over and as we sat down to dinner at 6:00 (in plenty of time to arrive early for the recital at 7:00) Marc's Palm beeped, indicating that he was supposed to be somewhere. Yes, it was the recital, which started at 6! So, a beautiful dinner wasted, we got to the recital at 6:20, in time for Melody and Thomas to do their parts, but the evening was not as fun as we'd planned! Here are Melody and Thomas with their teacher, who is smiling even though we came late.
Thomas' orchestra teacher (who also teaches orchestra at the middle school) and the choir teacher were in charge of the musical that Melody was in at the middle school. She was a choir member for "School House Rock Live" It had all kinds of good music in it, things I remember form the old television show, and many I don't remember. Remember "Conjunction, junction, what's your function?" It was very well done. All did an excellent job with some very difficult music. It was fun to watch. Melody is on the risers, upper left. It must have been a fun play to be in, and besides, they've had TWO cast parties now. Go figure.
I titled this sunshine and music, because I was thinking of the beautiful sunshine we've had the last couple of days, but last week was actually rainy. Bryan got to go to Six Flags for Physics Day on Friday and they probably had the nicest weather of the whole week. They had thunderstorms predicted, but I don't think it ever rained. They even had sunshine most of the day. I think he had a fun day there. Otherwise, he's been pretty busy also. We've all just been counting down until school is over, but haven't gotten too far at making summer plans.
Jan Dill Hall St. Peters, Missouri
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