JAZZ UNLIMITED.....
I just had the priviledge of traveling with my daughters high school choirs to Pasco, WA for a choir music festival held at the Columbia Basin College. We took around 100 students with us.
This is the 3rd year that our high school has competed at this festival.
The choirs competed in classical and Jazz catagories for Jazz Choir, Ac apella choir, and girls choir. Our girls brought home a 1st place award in the classical catagory, and a third in the jazz catarory, the Jazz Choir brought home a second place award in the jazz catagory, then the whole group got what is called the Waldo award! This award is probably the most sought after award of the whole competition. This is the sportsmanship, spirit award. Way to go Eagle High Choirs.
Last Year the girls choir was the only choir to bring home an award, so we were really jazzed about getting four awards this year. I was especially pleased for one senior in particular. I'll just call her J. She and I have become really good friends this year. She is such a sweetheart. J loves choir and always has. She was in the middle school choirs with Em and now is in the high school choirs also. She was so disapointed the first night of the competition that Jazz Choir didn't get an award. Being this was her senior year she wanted them to get an award so bad that she could almost taste it. I couldn't have been happier when our Jazz Choir got the award the second night and J was floating on cloud 9.
We had an unfortunate incident last night that impacted the whole festival. Gonzaga Prep in Spokane. Wa. was there with a conductor from Spokane High, I believe that is the school that he was from anyway. The conductor from Gonzaga had stayed home because he was fighting with cancer, last night around 7pm Pacific time he lost the fight. The kids from Gonzaga were a mess after that. I wanted to put my arms around the bunch of them. Our Choir teacher was telling me later that he was a tremendous teacher and a person with a heart of gold.
Mom W was here 4/24/2005 02:25:00 PM
