Singing In The Rain!

Well, actually, I cannot remember if it was rainy or sunny on the day described below, but let’s assume it was rainy.

The last half of the school year, Katya was able to participate in choir at our base school. Every Wednesday after school, for almost an hour and a half, kids of the 4th and 5th grade came to their music/art teacher Ms. Bennett to learn new songs and sing their hearts out (the next three pictures were taken by my friend-photographer Vanessa Shockely).

Show choir combines both singing and action/dance, so one must be really coordinated to do both well at the same time and in front of strangers.

Ms. Bennett drilled kids for hours. They memorized not only all the words perfectly but knew exactly when to come out, whose turn was when, how to smile ALL THE TIME and what to do with their hands, feet, etc.

So when the performance time came, there was not a detail that the kids missed or messed up. The whole concert lasted about thirty minutes with one song after another, and they actually sounded so great!

Katya was very lucky to get one of the solo parts in the concert. She sang a verse from “I Am Singing In The Rain”. She did a wonderful job!

And please see for yourself in this weird “because our battery was dying” video. Katya’s part begins around 01:30:

Yeah, sorry for such bad picture quality.

The sad part is the next school year, when Katya starts middle school, I don’t know if there will be any choir offered at all. Maybe Robert should become a part-time choir director.

Good night.

Lyana.