High School Concerts and Birthdays

Talents never disappear forever.

Regardless of how educated kids are today, there is one thing that will remain constant: each person is good at something.

I've already been to Newfield High School's first Spring Concert late least week. To be honest, I knew the students could have done far better then. However, the students for the concert that I just attended were exceptional.

Jazz Choir

As always, the concerts feature choral groups as well as instrumentals. The jazz choir happened to be one of the varieties. My brother Jeremy played the piano as an accompanist earlier in the year, but decided to quit after claiming the members were unideal for him. Whoa, now...

Philharmonic Orchestra - Cello Section

Philharmonic Orchestra - Bassist Section

Philharmonic Orchestra - Violin Section (Go Jenny on the left!)

Of course, when I saw Philharmonic Orchestra on the program, the first thing that came to mind was, "Really, classical stuff?" It's most likely because of personal experiences when listening to such orchestras I'm usually presented with classical music. But even without playing a drop of classical music, the orchestra sounded just fine. Here's an example, collaborating with the school's wind ensemble:

"Scene From the Wild West" ft. Newfield Wind Ensemble

Jeremy should be somewhere in the right hand side smacking his vibraphone and other percussion instruments... Anyway, unfortunately, my poor Sony Cybershot ran out of batteries when the wind ensemble and combined chorus group were due to perform. Well, I did get one blurry photo of him on standby next to the vibraphone and one blurry photo of the emsemble on standby.

Wind Ensemble

Really, really unfortunate that my camera ran out of batteries. One of the pieces performed was unusually long (estimated around seven minutes), but was unique in sound.

After the concert was over, which lasted for nearly three hours, the family and I were homeward bound. June 8th happens to be Jeremy's birthday, so cake was necessary.

Happy 16th birthday, kid.

That's right, stab it harder!

An enjoyable school concert - albeit somewhat lengthy, ice cream cake, jotting thoughts down up to these upcoming sentences... it was a worthwhile day. Now I just need to sleep. Maybe I'll hit the sack after another midnight snack.