Our director, Mrs. Brumley, isn't exclusive to the Master Chorale. She's also been the director of a community choir called the South Texas Chorale for the past 20 years. Today was her farewell concert with that choir. Sadly, no director has stepped up to take her place, so this was also the farewell concert for the South Texas Chorale.
After TMEA, she made the announcement to us that she was leaving STC but made sure we knew she wasn't leaving our choir (she loves that job too much).
Today's concert was mainly Mozart's Requiem which is all in Latin and about a 40 minute work (and we learned it in about a month and still had to help STC though they'd been working with the requiem since January). It's similar to Handel's Messiah in that there are individual songs that make up the whole work, aren't usually performed in its entirety and have at least one very famous part. Apart from that, we opened with "Surely The Lord Is In This Place," then after the requiem, we did "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and closed with our traditional benediction, "The Lord Bless You and Keep You," which had the STC and Mrs. Brumley in tears.
It was definitely special seeing Mrs. Brumley end her tenure with the STC and made me even more grateful to have her stay with us. It made me both dread and look forward to the next concert (April 17) where they'll recognize the graduating seniors (the boy and another friend). I'll definitely cry during "The Lord Bless You.." at that concert.
I had Tina record the hymns and the benediction from the balcony:
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