Hello everybody - just got back from the Awards Ceremony to announce excitedly that we won a Silver Medal in the Youth Choirs Equal Voices competition!
We achieved a score of 78.00 - pretty much what we assessed ourselves at - the gorgeous girls from Svonky - Praha got a Gold with 80.13 and we thought they were very good when we performed with them in Washington. And they were sooo nice to come and congratulate us!
Our friends from the Farnham Choir, who we stayed with in England on our last tour finished 4th (and Gold) with 85.88 - lovely to see them successful too!
Amazing scenes in the Arena when the Champion Choir was announce - a very large choir from Guangdong in China - and it was a fabulous evening to attend!
We did do some other things today - including a workshop with Tove Ramlo -Ystad from Norway, who taught us some finer points of her piece Ave Maria - and taught us some Norwegian songs and techniques that teach timing, and balancing left and right brain - she was lovely and Christie has made a valuable contact for the future!
Well, good night from hot and humid Cincinnati - don't know how we will sleep with the excitement, but we have to get up at 4.30am to get our flight to San Francisco - think of us as you watch the 6.00pm news Sunday night!
LOVE TO ALL!!!!!
So proud of you all hope you've all got enough energy left to enjoy all that San Francisco has to offer - look forward to the blogs every day thanks for all the postings and pictures! Charles and Julie Grover
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ReplyDeleteWhat an achievement,Congratulations to all.
Have a great time in San Francisco.