The final opportunity we had to watch September perform (for the season) was at a benefit concert with Michael Ballam as the main performer! I completely forgot my camera and was so bummed!! The choir rehearsals are at the American Heritage school, which is a private LDS school (it's across the street from the Mt. Logan and Peyton were being very obnoxious and hard to deal with (it had been a long day and Pey had not had a nap), but you could still feel the spirit very strongly from these sweet little spirits! For their grand entrance they all came walking up through the aisles and from the sides of the stage carrying these fake little candle things. Their next performance (and the one and only one for the prep choir) was held at the Alpine Tabernacle. I've never seen a live nativity before and at first we didn't think it WAS real, but suddenly the animals started moving! The kids had a blast getting to touch the animals! They did really well and afterward the kids enjoyed interacting with the LIVE nativity they had set up outside. The first opportunity the Concert Choir had to perform was at an Interfaith Celebration at a church here in Lehi. I was actually looking forward to their concerts! From the very first rehearsal I was absolutely blown away! Not only did they just jump right in with some pretty difficult songs (within the first 10 minutes of being there they were singing Handel's "Messiah"!), but they also sounded amazing! Even the prep choir sounded great. But my mind was quickly changed as soon as I heard them singing. I have to admit, I am not one who necessarily "loves" listening to choirs and after enrolling them and looking at their schedule and all of the dates they'd be performing, I suddenly wasn't so excited anymore of having to attend concert after concert. So in the end it actually turned out to be something she was very excited about. But it really is true, anyone can pick out the melody, but if you can learn alto then you can obviously sing both parts. But then my mother-in-law had a talk with September about it and suddenly her attitude was, "ANYONE can sing the melody!" Ha ha, I loved it. Sure, she has a pretty low voice, but just because you sing lower doesn't necessarily mean you're an Alto.
At first I didn't know how I felt about this and either did September. She wasn't the youngest, but she was the smallest, especially considering the director had placed her in the Alto section as well which was pretty much entirely teenage girls. The first day we went September felt really out of place. Well, their auditions went so well that not only did they make an exception for Kya, but September was invited to be in the concert choir! She was actually a little bummed originally because she wasn't going to be able to be with Ariel, but after reminding her that this wasn't going to be anything that they were really going to be able to interact at anyway and it was such a great opportunity, she was o.k. There are two different choirs: a "prep" choir for kids 8-12, and an auditioned "concert" choir for kids 8-18. When I originally called the director to see if it would even be possible for Kya to be in it because she was only 7 and the age requirement was 8, he said he wanted them both to come in and audition so he could hear them and help make the decision whether or not he felt she would be "mature" enough to be a part of it. But they didn't end up getting to be together after all. So we decided to do it and we passed the word around to other friends and September's best friend, Ariel, ended up wanting to do it as well.
They granted us a partial one with the agreement that I would be the "roll taker" for class every week. But they had scholarships available and so I applied for one. But money was really tight at the time and I just didn't think we could do it. September and Kya LOVE to sing and it sounded like a great opportunity and it was quite inexpensive compared to most extracurricular things. At the beginning of the school year a friend of mine passed on some information about a gospel-oriented youth choir that her daughter had been a part of the year before and was planning on being in during the upcoming year.
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