Symphony Hall

Today was an exciting day!  Julia's Select Choir got to perform in the Gold Medal Showcase at Symphony Hall!  This was a concert put forth by all the ensembles who had won Gold at the MICCA competition.  The not-fun part of it all was the fact that Julia had to be at the Middle School by 7am this morning to take the bus into Boston.  That meant not only did she need to get up at 6am, but I did too; luckily, Julia is pretty fast at getting ready in the morning, so we were able to get to the school with plenty of time.  After I dropped her off, I headed home, where we got the rest of the Rowe Household ready.  The 3 remaining members drove into Boston to see the 9am performance by Julia's group.  We parked on a side street a few blocks from Symphony Hall and made our way by foot to the concert venue.  Ethan wore a dress shirt and jeans, while I wore a somewhat casual top with dress pants.

As you can see, Madeleine was dressed in an haute couture mish-mash style:

When we arrived at Symphony Hall, a High School group from another town was performing, so we had the pleasure of listening to their excellent chamber choir.  Afterwards, the 8th grade choir from our town performed, followed by Julia's Select Choir (which is an audition-only choir of 6th-8th graders.)  Because we were seated in the balcony, I couldn't get a great close-up shot of the group, but here are a few from farther away:

I was thrilled to see my daughter's experience on the Symphony Hall stage!  I texted Julia immediately afterwards to extend my congratulations and compliments.

ME: I am so proud of you!  Yours is the only middle school choir to get gold!
JULIA: It was scary


Okay then.

Lucky for Julia, she was not one of the members of the Select Choir who had to perform double (actually, triple) duty today.  In the afternoon, we Rowes headed to a town performance of a musical called "Alice in Oz," which featured several of Madeleine's third-grade friends, as well as several members of Julia's Select Choir.  We saw the afternoon performance, but there will be another production this evening.  Talk about an exhausting day for some of these singers!

All of us enjoyed the show, but ONE of us was rendered inspired by it.  Any guesses as to who that was?

ROWES: (exiting the show)
MADELEINE: So, I got inspired to do our OWN show with our family!  So, like...(launching into her ideas for our family-produced musical.)


I think we've had enough excitement for one day, so perhaps we'll pick up on the family musical thread somewhere down the road.