Yesterday, as part of our centenary celebrations, our church hosted a “Come and Sing Messiah”. We all met at 1pm for the first time with a guest conductor, guest soloist and guest musician.
There were people of all abilities, me being one of those who has never sung it before and actually had only spent a week or two listening to a CD to try and pick bits up to people who had been singing it for years. We were really pleased at the response we got with approx 75 people coming to sing!
So we spent the afternoon singing it through so a performance could be given in the evening. In the afternoon we just managed to get through all the pieces we were going sing in time to stop for tea.
At tea time I was planning on moving from the choir into the audience because I felt a bit of a fraud really, not knowing it well enough, but thanks to friends I stayed in the choir.
People started arriving to listen and get a seat in the chapel. The choir chatted nervously and excitedly in the fellowship room waiting to enter the chapel. And then it begun.
The sound was amazing, the atmosphere was too. I have to say that I really enjoyed it despite my doubts and fears and being able to say that I was a part (although only a very little part) of it is a really good feeling.
Thank you to everyone who was involved, from the mad person who said they wanted to sing “The Messiah” to everyone who took part in all the planning, preparation and of course execution and not forgetting those who came to listen. We also need to thank God for the part he played in it too and thank Him for His Son Jesus, of whom we sang about.
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