Handel's "Messiah" Performance, Mormon Tabernacle Choir

I am really excited about an upcoming broadcast. Usually, I'm OK excited about religious broadcasts, and being LDS, it seems there are a lot of them. But for some reason, I always make time for music broadcasts. Probably because I love music and I love the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square!

On Good Friday and Saturday, the Choir and Orchestra will perform Handel's Messiah. Although usually thought of during Christmastime, the oratorio was originally composed for Easter. You can watch it live at 7:30 p.m. Mountain/6:30 p.m. Pacific through streaming at mormontabernaclechoir.org/messiah. If you miss the live stream, you can watch it later on demand at the choir's website or on youtube. You won't want to miss an amazing and moving musical masterpiece sung by a talented, blow-you-away choir.




Here's a great article about Handel and the Messiah, if you want to learn more!

Here is an article about the libretto (text of the composition) and its Easter themes.

Let me know if you watch or listen to this great musical event!

Trans Siberian Orchestra Concert, Nov. 2013

We went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra (TSO) concert on Saturday night. Drew and I were on a date, and Shannon joined us. Sad day, Brady was under the weather. He would have loved it.

I am not much of a rocker and my rock concerts have pretty much just consisted of a Hootie and the Blowfish concert when I was 15 and Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band concerts at concert. Love Ryan Shupe. I wasn't familiar with Hootie and kept wondering why it smelled so funny there.

Like I said before, we won tickets from a friend's raffle. Our seats were in a suite! I have never been in a suite, it was so sweet. The best part was that we had our own personal toilet. Here is the order of awesome things about being in a suite.

1. Personal toilet
2. Having water to drink the whole time.
3. Having a place to set your food and water on in front of you.
4. Feeling like a queen and referring to all the other people as "the peasants" for the whole night.
5. Comfy seats.
6. Being with 16 people you know because everyone from your ward won tickets.
7. Parking right across the street for FREE!

As you can tell, being in the suite was pretty cool.

The concert was fun, too. I wasn't sure what to expect as I was only family with TSO's Christmas songs. They played some Christmas songs, then had a Christmas story/music thing, played more Christmas songs, and then played other songs.

Drew and I are so dumb at rock and roll. The lead guitarist said that his best friend Paul was there and he got the group together. Everyone was screaming. We were like, "YAY!" but didn't know why everyone was freaking out. And then later on the drive home when we talked with Shannon did we realize that it was Paul McCartney! ooooff! So that was pretty cool in retrospect.

The lights were amazing, it was really loud and I did put in earplugs, the music was great and fun. I really am not much of a rocker, but we had a great time. I am glad we won the tickets and I think we should go to more rock concerts in the future. As long as we balance those with symphonies because that is what I love.

Today's Workout
core
strength training, 20 minutes
row, 0.5 miles on the schedule

What has been your favorite non-symphonic concert?
Sorry TSO, Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band always will have my heart. They are awesome entertainers and I love to sing along with them.

Have you ever been in a suite?

How was your workout?

Going to a Concert!

I'm going on a date with A tonight. I am pretty excited. We are going to the Trans Sibrian Orchestra concert at Key Arena in Seattle. I will definitely give a review of it! We are going with our buds Shannon and Brady. Shannon is my BFF.

We won the tickets in a raffle from a bake sale. Awesome!

I've never been to one of these concerts. I'm not sue about the dress code. I think it is probably more like a rock concert than an orchestra concert, though.

It has been sunny but cold the past few days. We are busy shopping got our feast next week, so I probably won't get a run in. At least I have done some yoga. Happy happy stretching. :)

Here's to enjoying some music tonight!

Yesterday's workout
Core
Strength training, 20 minutes

Today's workout
Yoga, 30 minutes

Do you go to a special Christmas concert each year?

Have you ever won free tickets to a concert?
This is my first time, but I worked at a tv and radio station as a receptionist one summer and gave a lot of winners their prizes. Some were so excited they were practically jumping while they claimed their prize!