As you all know I reported earlier in the week that Hubby and I were offered very generous tickets to a Christmas concert at our very own Charlotte Performing Arts Center… Well, we went and had a marvelous time, with excellent seating.
It was a night of Christmas classics and since my foot tapping ain’t what it used to be, and so I utilized my upper extremities, arms and hands in a sort of conducting re-enactment from our seats. Hubby felt that this was odd, and said I did not appear that I had all my faculties where one should have them, but he was not so flowery in his debasing, more exacting, so out of character.
Any-who, we did have times when the audience was actually encouraged to sing-a-long. And yes, case in point, the first welcoming for this entitlement was just before intermission with a memorable voluminous heartfelt rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah by Handel, of course.
This in particular was a fond memory for Hubby and me, since as high schoolers we both were in choir but in two different schools in the same county though and when our choral groups were invited to perform at the Teaneck Armory we hadn’t even met as of yet, coincidence, who knows…
And so the joyous season projected from the familiar tunes that the Charlotte Chorale, seventy men and women strong, performed so well, many favorites such as Come All Ye Faithful, O Tannenbaum, O Holy Night, We need a little Christmas, and on and on… we all got to reprise our singing abilities with being brought into the fold once again with, I’ll Be Home For Christmas and then again with White Christmas… old favorites that we all know by heart, but it was very nice that they provided the lyrics to follow along. Less than a dozen of the Charlotte High School Band provided the accompaniment for the second half of the program. Angela Navarro was the lone pianist for the first half and did an excellent job has she has done many times before I am more than sure. Laurel Webber is not only the President of the Chorale but did a few solos in her magnificent soprano voice.
So many were featured I could go on all night long… but the concert was just the beginning of our evening… and at each moment it was spectacular!
The concert ended at dinner time so Hubby and I went over to the Fish Market at Fisherman’s Village to have something… and we chose a hot meal rather than our usual cold selections…but I am getting ahead of myself… Hubby and I as you may know are not usually out during the evening, we are in usually very early and stay there, and so seeing all the Christmas lights on our way to Fishville was absolutely thrilling we had thought, be still me heart, until we arrived at the location and were WOWED beyond our beliefs… One million lights adorned the entire complex of Fisherman’s Village in Punta Gorda, FL!
To explain it would not do it justice you must see it with your own eyes, beautiful!
We are hopefully planning to take the kids there when they come down to visit during the holiday and so this was a dry run… and worth the try out.
Never think you are going to have a quick anything eating out during this time of the year here in destination Florida in winter with snowbirds and other families here for the holiday, so relax and know that is how it should be… enjoy the family with a new realization, zapped again with the reality how fast it can disappear!
Any-who, we got home late for us maybe not for you; and I quickly sent you all that cryptic blurb…
And we had a movie waiting for us to see… Men in Black 3, we have seen both of the others and so we had been looking forward to this one too, and we did enjoy the small light desert ending to our banquet of one heck of a memorable late afternoon and evening with the season still going on…
The day before was the tragedy in Newtown, and it almost felt irreverent having this much joy, but let me ask you, isn’t that what death teaches all of us?
Every minute is precious so make the most from everything we do…including mundane tasks can be done with love, and never ever forget to tell those you love that you do each moment they are with you and even when they are not, since there must be an app for that!
And now in closing I just want to let all of you know even in your deepest sadness take time to be happy for who knows when things could change and we all must NOT have any regrets when that times comes for us, and it will…
On that note of my love for each and everyone of you, allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages which can see that you have been doing all over my Facebook page and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!