Holiday-Christmas-Concert
Happy Holidays to everyone!
On Thursday our school held our Holiday Concert. Below I’ve highlighted 2 of the performance videos.
We called it our Holiday Concert, but in hindsight it was just a Christmas Concert. It wasn’t intentional, it was unintentional bias, but all of the songs performed were either Christmas songs, or songs that we tend to associate with Christmas. Next year I hope we can make it more of a world holiday affair, but for now enjoy my two favourite performances. Considering that all of the classes started practicing for this concert just 2 weeks earlier, it isn’t a surprise that the ones that I like are from teachers with music degrees. The first video is of two classes, Ms Shae & Yee’s class and my wife’s class, and includes my daughter Cassie. The second video is of Mr. Underhay’s class. Enjoy!
Christmas Comes from the Heart is wonderful! It sounds like a choir that practiced for months.
And this class combined their talents to perform a not-so-silent ska version of Silent Night.
Two other honourable mentions go to 4 year old Max’s Cello Solo and a fun version of Dancin’ on the Rooftop.
Enjoy the performances, and for those of you that celebrate Christmas, a very happy day to you. For those of you that celebrate other festivals and ceremonies this time of year, I’d love for you to link to some performances to help inspire our holiday concert next year.
Tags: bias, cello, Christmas, Christmas Comes from the Heart, Dancin' on the Rooftop, holiday, holiday concert, music, performance, reflection, Season's Greetings, Silent Night, students, unintentional bias
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December 25th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Lovely, Dave! It brings back memories of Christmas concerts past, one in which my own daughter played the same piece as your cellist, but on the piano. It’s a clear, cold day here in Vancouver, so unlike our Christmas last year!
December 25th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Hi Lesley,
It’s 1am now and so Christmas is over in Dalian, China. We had a wonderful, quiet, family day. There was a light frosting of snow at 8:30am and at about 8:35am there was about 2cm of new snow that seemed to arrive blowing sideways and at a pace I’ve seldom seen in Vancouver. So it was a white Christmas here.
I’m just waiting a few more minutes for the Silent Night video to finish uploading on blip.tv to embed in this post. With the (Not so) Great Chinese Filter, I chose the unblocked Flickr to showcase the videos, they took about 27hrs to upload 19 videos (on my painfully slow connection) and only after posting this did I realize that flickr has a 1.5 minute limit to videos.
Although blip.tv is currently blocked, I’m hoping that I can use blip to get the Holiday Concert videos onto iTunes for parents.
I hope you are enjoying your day and wish you all the best for a wonderful new year.
~Dave.