Sunday, July 10, 2016

July 10, 2016

Celebrating 50 Years with Music

As of 8 PM PDT yesterday (July 9th), we have been married 50 years.  Looking forward to this day I searched the web several months ago for things to do to celebrate this day.  I happened across a dinner theater in Fredericksburg, VA that did Broadway musicals.  Good start.  Show that date was ‘Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber’.  Good deal. Favored music and food. 

Nice evening.  First two hours were devoted to meal.  Food itself was so so. I had chicken cordon bleu.  I realize that it is difficult to have many meals ready to serve on short order in limited time but freshness was definitely missing here.  The chicken was very tough.  almost like jerky. It was tasty, just tough.  The sides were very tasty though. Desert was cheese cake. Again not so good.  Very tough and dense.  Not quite but almost needed a knife to cut it.  Have had better from Costco freezer.

The show was a different story.  Great! Ten adults and seven kids (who performed like adults) singing 2 1/2 hours of almost nonstop Andrew Lloyd Webber. Not just singing but incorporating appropriate acting to enhance the songs.  Pretty extensive costuming and some set parts (Phantom chandelier) to enhance a segment.  Great voices (adults AND kids) and presentation.  The soprano  who sang the Christine songs from Phantom was OUTSTANDING.  Sue’s comment “I understood every word she sang”.  The part is very difficult.  There are several songs with very high notes which then go higher and then higher and then higher. She hit and held every one perfectly.  It was truly inspirational to see and hear.  She also sang ‘Pie Jesu’ from Requiem. Beautiful!  So many singers try to force a song by trebling, overpowering, or jumping up a note to emphasize their control of it. It really just shows the lack of confidence on the part of the singer.  This artist sang very difficult songs exactly as they were written with great confidence, strength, and control.  Wonderful!

We are now in North Carolina.  Took as many small roads as possible getting to a campground in the northeast corner including going through the peanut growing region  of Virginia and the area where peanuts were first grown in America.

View out our front window at our current camp spot.



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