My first year in Holiday Pops
10-26 Dec 2009: Holiday Pops Concerts with the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
This afternoon I finished my Holiday Pops concerts with the “green team” of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. I think that, after a month of Santa hats and Christmas flair, surprise choreography from Keith Lockhart, score cuts, bad Santa jokes, guest artist changes and nearly shouting out the Hallelujah chorus multiple times I’ve come to consider myself a fully-baptized member of the TFC.
From this summer’s Die Meistersinger, through rehearsing (and trying to memorize!) the upcoming MacMillan St. John Passion and, finally, finishing out 2009 with the Boston Pops, I’ve come to really enjoy singing at Symphony Hall and out at Tanglewood with some wonderful people. TFC is really, truly one big happy family. There are members who have sung with the chorus for decades, and I can only dream to last that long.
Many, many thanks to Betsy, Laurie, Deb, Tracy and anyone else who has had the heart to “show me the ropes” in row four. My holiday favorites? They are the “Winter Weather Medley” and the “12 Days of Christmas,” of course!
