Well, this weekend was the GWU Concert Choir retreat. The retreat is a two-day, intense rehearsal. We cram as much music as we can into our brains so that we can spend class time working out the "kinks". This year's reterat was a huge success. I am choir president this year so I am especially glad it went well.
As a choir member I am ecstatic that we have the most people we have had in several years, 41. In the past two years we have had from 25 to 30 members. Last semester we had only two guys singing bass and this year we have 9.
It saddens me that many people have little appreciation for choral music, especially college students. This is a video of the concert choir singing in the Washington Cathedral in 2008, which was my freshman year:
The song is "Ubi Caritas". It has beautiful chords and lyircs. The text is in latin but tranlates to this in englsh:
Where charity and love are, God is there.
Christ's love has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him.
Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And may we love each other with a sincere heart.
These words are beutiful and they clearly represent what Christians are called to do.
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