Everyone needs to do this any time of the year, but in December if you're either a parent or involved in any musical pursuits (worse yet, like me, BOTH!), it's an urgent matter for your sanity. So it is that tonight I'm vegging out to highlights from Handel's Messiah while I'm blogging after my children have headed to the showers.
It's nice to finally have an evening more or less to myself after spending Saturday at a lengthy swimming contest and an extra choral rehearsal. Sunday was icing on the busy cake with church in the morning (choral obligation #1), getting my youngest to the starting point of the local Christmas parade, watching same, finding her afterward, & getting us both to choral obligation #2, a festival of local choirs that culminated in most of the group taking part in the Hallelujah chorus. Since that's as close as I generally get to a live performance of Messiah these days, I enjoy it greatly. My grandmother & I used to attend it every December after I started driving, so I miss it. That annual chance to perform a piece of it also makes me miss her all over again (for only the fifth year--she was nearly 99 when she passed away in November 2003).
Looking forward to my potentially white Christmas in New England!
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