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Re: Great music, great concert
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2025, 10:39:35 AM »

My girls are wearing white shirts and black skirts. The left-most girl is wearing pants; skip over her.
This brings back a memory. When I was in college majoring in music education and piano performance I belonged to several groups- Choir, Symphony, etc. Even at a university, for performances, women were strictly prohibited from wearing pants. It had to be an ankle length black dress with sleeves and a modest cut (by worldly standards, no cleavage). That was the dress code. I wonder if it’s still like that.

Attaching a picture of my symphony band back then. That’s the kind of dress most music groups were required to wear.


Re: Great music, great concert
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2025, 12:02:28 PM »
Soon Hee Newbold

"Epic movie soundtrack" -- that's a good way to describe it, yes.



Starts off reminding me of TLOTRing sound track. Very nice.


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Re: Great music, great concert
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2025, 08:13:41 PM »
This brings back a memory. When I was in college majoring in music education and piano performance I belonged to several groups- Choir, Symphony, etc. Even at a university, for performances, women were strictly prohibited from wearing pants. It had to be an ankle length black dress with sleeves and a modest cut (by worldly standards, no cleavage). That was the dress code. I wonder if it’s still like that.

Attaching a picture of my symphony band back then. That’s the kind of dress most music groups were required to wear.


The orchestra they play in contains mostly homeschoolers, and they dress pretty well.
The choir, on the other hand, has one girl who always pushes the bar, and her skirt is always as short as she can get away with. (There's one in every group!)
There was a big family at my old chapel (who left for the Indult) with a large number of kids -- exactly ONE of their girls had this problem. I don't know who turned her Modesty down to 0, or her Vanity up to 10. Even her sisters didn't seem to have this problem!

It's funny how some girls are just born with something broken, like they're destined "for the streets" or something. The mystery of iniquity, I guess.
I can see where the Calvinists got the crazy idea that some are just born to go to Hell. It's not true, and these black sheep always have Free Will. But it's a mystery why some humans choose poorly all the time, while others choose wisely. Even in the same family, same parents, same circuмstances!

Re: Great music, great concert
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2025, 10:26:55 PM »
Congratulations for having musically talented children.

The piece has a certain soundtrack quality. It is not as elaborate as classical music, but it does sound very good. It reminds me a bit of Yanni too.

Encourage them to like and play Baroque music, if they don't do it already. It is sounds good, but it also makes you use your intelligence, specially Bach. I don't play any classical instruments, but I think that Vivaldi's music is relatively easy to play and also very pleasant. Plus, Vivaldi was a priest, which makes it kind of cool too.

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Re: Great music, great concert
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2025, 11:05:19 PM »
Encourage them to like and play Baroque music, if they don't do it already. It is sounds good, but it also makes you use your intelligence, specially Bach. I don't play any classical instruments, but I think that Vivaldi's music is relatively easy to play and also very pleasant. Plus, Vivaldi was a priest, which makes it kind of cool too.
Next week they have their solo recitals and that's where the classical music features heavily as the program they're in is Suzuki-based.
Off the top of my head, our daughters will be playing La Folia (Corelli), Salut d'Amour, two movements from a Telemann concerto, and two other things that I don't remember right now but they're definitely from the Suzuki books.