Amazing Concert

Finally a post about music!!!!  So last weekend I went to an amazing concert.  It was an oratorio called "Messiah in America."

It was written by the director of this choir in California that also has a sister choir in Arizona.  So anyways, both of these great choirs got together with a full orchestra and a children's choir to sing this production.  The text from this oratorio comes from 3rd Nephi in the Book of Mormon.  With 600+ voices they had some really powerful parts where you could really feel the music.  One of my favorite musical parts of the work was where they sang about the storm that happened at the time of Christ's crucifixion .  The orchestra was playing all these different things that sounded like thunder and lightning and rain.  It was a very nice effect.  I went to this cause my awesome little  brother was playing french horn in the orchestra and he did a great job.

So I didn't get any pictures of the group when they performed here in UT, but this is a picture of the choir from California when they premiered the piece.  So just double what you see here and add a children's choir and that's about what it was like.  Another one of my favorite parts of the concert was after the oratorio.  They did two encore pieces.  First, the children's choir sang "Beautiful Savior" and than, the adult choir sang "I know that my Redeemer Lives."  It was a very powerful finish to a great concert I thought.
After watching this performance it made me want to (1) write something amazing like this, and (2) put together a group like this.  I'm thinking very seriously about number 2 but I'd start with a much smaller group. I think that it would be fun to get a choir and learn a bunch of fun and sacred music and than put an orchestra together to do the accompaniment.  I'll have to see what I can do.  Maybe I can get something together before Christmas...