Tis the holiday season when choir classes at schools across the nation, perform the songs they have been working on for months.
Chance has been going through finals, his singing performance being part of his choir final. As a stroke of luck, Chance was actually positioned in a spot where we could see him unlike his last concert where he was totally hidden by bigger high school kids. It is much easier for parents to photograph and video their children if they can see them. Otherwise, things get awkward like the summer I photographed the wrong kid coming off the slide at swim class. We parents were all lined up by the slides trying to time things just right so that when our child came around the corner on the slide and splashed into the water, we could permanently record the moment. I snapped a photo of a child I didn't even know. Obviously, I was off that day. But I digress...
At the concert however, we had a decent view of Chance and were able to record him singing the songs that we had been hearing bits and pieces of as he strolled through the house during the last few weeks.
Chance did great and I am once again grateful that my boys stuck it out in choir in the early days when all of their male friends switched out of class as soon as their mothers weren't looking. My boys like to sing and on top of their school performance, they both sang in the church choir this year.
So, here is Chance performing one of the songs from his choir concert. We missed the first verse on video, but this is "The 12 days AFTER Christmas" - To set the stage, here's the missed first verse: "The first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight. And so I chopped the pear tree down, and burned it just for spite. And with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge, my true love, my true love, my true love gave to me."
Chance has been going through finals, his singing performance being part of his choir final. As a stroke of luck, Chance was actually positioned in a spot where we could see him unlike his last concert where he was totally hidden by bigger high school kids. It is much easier for parents to photograph and video their children if they can see them. Otherwise, things get awkward like the summer I photographed the wrong kid coming off the slide at swim class. We parents were all lined up by the slides trying to time things just right so that when our child came around the corner on the slide and splashed into the water, we could permanently record the moment. I snapped a photo of a child I didn't even know. Obviously, I was off that day. But I digress...
At the concert however, we had a decent view of Chance and were able to record him singing the songs that we had been hearing bits and pieces of as he strolled through the house during the last few weeks.
Chance did great and I am once again grateful that my boys stuck it out in choir in the early days when all of their male friends switched out of class as soon as their mothers weren't looking. My boys like to sing and on top of their school performance, they both sang in the church choir this year.
So, here is Chance performing one of the songs from his choir concert. We missed the first verse on video, but this is "The 12 days AFTER Christmas" - To set the stage, here's the missed first verse: "The first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight. And so I chopped the pear tree down, and burned it just for spite. And with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge, my true love, my true love, my true love gave to me."
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