(click here for original trip & concert info)
The Concert Choir just returned from the Virginia Choral Festival where we combined our voices with the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir and the Virginia Children’s Choir for a workshop day with Dr. John Irving, choral director at Christopher Newport University, and we also sang in the beautiful Basilica of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Norfolk for a concert to benefit the Norfolk Street Choir Project. (A choir for homeless people and they also helps with other needs)
Our singers, chaperones, and trip leader (Michelle Sublett) were all STELLAR!! I couldn’t be more proud!
It’s hard to say which is more beautiful in the RVCC; the singing or the teamwork! I guess they go hand in hand. Everyone was so kind and helpful in all the everyday matters of traveling together for four days. Our singers were SO attentive and smart in how they took new instruction from other directors. The singing was so beautiful.
And no choir trip is complete without a story to tell! While we were all singing a beautiful concert in the Basilica, the bus had a malfunction and all of the air came out of the bus system causing the bus to go to its lowest position, which blocked the door from opening because the door was now against the curb. Our bus driver was calling other bus companies, towing places, even the police to see if they could jack it up and nothing was working out for help. I asked the bus driver if we could try to tip the bus up to get the door high enough to open so she could get in the bus. There was a learning curve, and there was a lot of enthusiasm! The RVCC couldn’t quite get it alone and called on the help of the SVCC and it worked! We tipped a bus!!!! It was probably one of the most exciting moments and also one of the biggest examples of team work!! Hurray for our teamwork!!
Pictures of the trip below!
Director, Ms. Davidson
