2010 Temecula & Murrietta Messiah Concert GREAT once again!

Once again the annual "Celebrate Messiah" Christmas Concert was held on the first Sunday of December at the Temecula United Methodist Church. The church was packed and this singer's view of the audience showed a lot of happy, smiling faces. After the concert I heard quite a few people complimenting the performance. The orchestra was wonderful, the soloists brought tears to people's eyes and even yours truly teared up on occasion as we sang scriptures set to the music of Handel.

This year Madge Griffing had passed the baton of conducting duties to her sons Rev. Barry and Rev. Steve Griffing. Their switching use of the conductor stand went flawlessly and even their differing styles of conducting had a positive effect on the music. A few more songs were added this year for both soloists and the full choir. I especially loved the song, "All We Like Sheep" which really keeps the singers and musicians on their toes and has at the end one of the most profound statements in Christianity.

The recording of our concert evidently did not work properly due to technical issues so I found the above mentioned song on You Tube by the Brisbane Concert Choir which has a lot of excellent postings of their performances of various songs from Handel's Messiah. Maybe next year...

Afterward I also had the opportunity to make some new friends and once again my verboseness (Is that a word? Well! It is now...) had my wife getting on me that it was time to leave. Happens every year. In fact, the first year my wife and I were involved in performing in this concert, it was blogger extraordinaire Douglas V. Gibbs and I, meeting face to face for the first time that had both our wives acting in conjunction and one in spirit as they dragged us apart, both still talking. and I can't remember if we were shouting across the parking lot to one another as we were getting in our cars but I can imagine it happening.

Well (once again) I digress. Put it on your calendar for next year. The first Sunday of December. Temecula California, Rancho Music Association.


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