Back in Utah

On Saturday Trish and I flew to Salt Lake City.  We flew on Saturday rather than Sunday to avoid the huge Thanksgiving holiday return traffic.  It was worth it...the airports were empty.

Tim Lowry was already here as he had a theatre evening performance of Dickens Christmas Carol at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi.

Since neither Tim nor I had to work again until Monday, he, Trish, and I got to go up to Temple Square on Sunday for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s first Christmas broadcast of the year.  It is a marvelous and moving thing to see and hear the choir with full orchestra bringing Music and the Spoken Word to millions of people worldwide and to be present for the live performance.  To hear a choir of 360 people perfectly articulate the quick short notes of Handel’s  “Unto Us A Child is Born” was amazing.

The Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra sing “God Be With Us ‘til We Meet Again” for their audience after the live broadcast is finished.

This week is composed of three days of school visits under the Timpanogos Institute’s organization.  Each day I do two school performances and then a writing workshop with either teachers or a specific  grade level of students.

Today the day was spent at Edgemont Elementary School in Provo.  Trish and I had a great time there hosted by our friend Debi Richan.  The art work in the halls of the school was spectacular.  Tomorrow we go to Promontory School in Perry, Utah.

In the hallway of the Edgmont Flying Eagles.