Exhausted But Excited
Well, Christmas Concerts ended in Minneapolis last Thursday night, and we headed back to good ol’ Concordia early Friday morning. The picture above is practically what our entire bus looked like that morning - completely and totally sound asleep.
Why where we all sleeping? Well part of it had to do with having to get up at 6 a.m. to get on the busses (what kind of college student gets up at 6am anyways), and the other part of it was that we worked our little tails off the day before with a rehearsal and back-to-back concerts on Thursday night. All in a day’s work I suppose.
Well to quickly touch on the cities concerts at Orchestra Hall, they were incredible! Especially the 9 p.m . concert. Everyone was concentrating so intently and connecting with both the conductor as well as the audience. Right after we finished singing “When I Survey The Wonderous Cross” I had tears filling my eyes because it was just that beautiful, and because I truly realized that, as a senior, this really was my last Christmas Concert.
The processional was fabulous and the compline was simply beautiful. Total silence then enveloped the hall (except for someone’s cell phone - please just turn your phones off at concerts). Then of all the things that would keep me from holding back my tears of absolute joy, Dr. Clausen blew us a kiss.
At that point I lost it, and tears streamed down my smiling face as I briskly walked off stage. Well, as I’ve said before we headed out early Friday morning and I slept the whole way except for a brief moment to take some pictures of all the cute sleeping people. All in all, great concerts! I love music more than anything else! It is my passion!