Christmas Eve Dinner

The dishes .....

the food ......

Four beatiful ladies

A few more songs and sort of better video.

Here are a few more songs - the prior ones were with our camera and these are with the video camera. You can see Nichole a little better in these pictures. She is the youngest player in the orchestra and shes plays with people of all ages. The video looks better and not so blurry on our computer than it does on the blog but again you can close your eyes and listen.

Nichole & The East Valley Mormon Choir Organization

Hark the Heral Angels Sing/O Come All Ye Faithful

Nichole has been participating in the East Valley Mormon Choral Oganization for the past 6 weeks. It is a new organization in Mesa/Gilbert headed by two brothers from Orange County, California who started the same type of thing 3 years ago there. The inaugural concert was this past week and it sounded amazing! The videos don't do it justice. They know they can't be the Mormon Tabernacle Choir but they hope to bring that type of sound and quality of music to different communities since we don't all live in Salt Lake and have access to the music on Temple Square.

To say this was challenging for Nichole would be an understatement. She was given her music only about 6 weeks ago. So she had to learn 11 or 12 new pieces in that short of time. She has had to work really hard to learn them. We could not have done it without our new violin teacher, Mrs. Viramontes who helps teach in Nichole's high school orchestra. Nichole left the first rehearsal knowing how to sight read one piece only semi well and by the concert she could play all but one without too much trouble. The hardest one for her is the Merry Christmas song from Home Alone. I am really proud of her, it sounded great!

Their next concert is an Easter concert, so anyone who wants to save the date it will be March 5th.

The videos are a little movement happy so you might just want to close your eyes and listen.