Thursday, February 28, 2008

Penguins don't have distinguishable faces.

I was listening to one of my mother’s choir albums on the way to school this morning. She just sent it to me last week at my request. There are about 360 members in her choir according to the official website. As I listen to the songs sometimes I get a little teary-eyed, like this morning, because it makes me realize how much I miss my mom. I don’t know if she just sings louder that all the other choir members, or if I just know my mothers voice, but in spite of my hearing deficiencies, I can always pick her out of the crowd. Maybe it is because she used to sing me to sleep sometimes as a child. I don’t know. I never really understood how big of thing this was that my mom was a part up until quite recently. Since my mom became a member back in 1993, her voice has been part of almost 100 albums and videos. She has sung on national television as part of this choir for almost 780 broadcasts. I could not find a stat for how many tours my mom has gone on, just this statement: “The Choir has performed in concerts around the world and throughout the United States. They have traveled to places such as Russia, many nations in Europe, Brazil, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2003 the Choir kicked off the celebration of its 75th year of broadcasting with a tour of major musical festivals in the northeastern United States. Performance venues included Chautauqua, Wolftrap, Tanglewood, the Lincoln Center, and Boston's Esplanade on July 4th with the Boston Pops Orchestra.” Something else kind of neat that I found was when I looked at this list: http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/roster/names?letter=B I remembered that my dad went ahead and got famous too.

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