Luther College Choir Concert

I know I promised to talk about my film class in this post, but it's currently past 1am and I just got back from my brother's choir concert in Thousand Oaks. Now Thousand Oaks isn't exactly the closet location to downtown Los Angeles, so I had to leave rather early to get there in time for the doors to open at 6:45. After meeting up with my family and briefly seeing Patrick before he had to get ready for the concert we found seats and waited for the concert to start. The concert itself was the Nordic Choir from Luther College and they were really good, with about 70 people, all with good voices. They sang only religious songs, some with string accompianment, some in other languages and mostly very harmonic pieces.

Two really good songs were ruined for me by a noisy photographer and a disruptive cell phone, respectively. There was one song that had some very wierd choreography to it from a small group of people, which rather turned me off. But Patrick had a solo in their only gospel song and he was quite goofy (he had to improvise parts of it, need I say more?). After the song was over the conductor had my parents stand up, partly because of Patrick's solo, but I also think because they're the only parents of anyone in the choir that will actually be at any of their concerts on this tour (Patrick is the only member of the choir from the West Coast. The next furthest west person is from Colorado).

So it was a good concert, and once again Eric Whitacre was there. After the concert we had to wait around for a long time for Patrick to get ready, then we left in search of food. Of course, it was about 10:30 so after driving around in circles, we found that the only thing open was a Jack-in-the-Box. When we had all had our dinner, we had to drop Patrick off at his host family's house in Simi Valley (which isn't exactly across the street). So by the time I left from there and got back it was almost 1am. It seems like quite a lot of time to spend on one choir concert. Anyway, to make a long story short, because I got back so late tonight, I won't be updating on my film class until tomorrow. But don't worry, it will come....