Friday evening was our Christmas Program at the Seocheonan Church. Jonathan, Fabrice and I invited all of our adult students to come and enjoy the program and we all had a few students come! Many of the church members participated in the program. Even Jonathan and I got involved with playing music. Once the pastor heard that Jonathan and I play string instruments he asked if we would play for the program if he rented a bass and a violin. We said yes and he managed to find us each an instrument. Another church member, Alice, plays the cello so we formed a string trio and played a couple Christmas carols. The church members and guests were so excited to hear the bass and the pastor told us many times that, "it was the first time we have heard the contrabass played." The pastor's wife, Mrs. Lee, also asked me to play violin with her two young sons and two other children. It was fun to be involved in a Christmas program again this year and I think everyone enjoyed the event! Below are some pictures of our program. (Sorry there isn't a picture of me playing violin with the kids. Check back later...hopefully we'll be able to find a church member who got a good picture of that. There were a lot of cameras out so I'm sure we'll be able to find one.)
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| Hazel and Gabe - the evening's emcees, joke-teller & translator |
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| Alice was busy accompanying for almost every group during the program |
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| The "Praise Ye the Lord" side enjoying the actions for "Hallelu, Hallelu" before the program started |
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| The "Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah" side |
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| Our string trio playing some Christmas carols |
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| This girl sang a song in Korean and had a beautiful voice |
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| The guys playing a slightly-jazzy version of "Silent Night" |
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| Alice's husband on electric-acoustic guitar (not sure of his name) |
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| Gabe on bass guitar |
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| Jonathan on piano |
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These four boys made up the children's choir.
The three on the right are sons of the Korean junior teachers and one of the institute secretaries. |
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| Korean solo |
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| Guitarist and a Korean duet |
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| Lilly, the Korean junior teacher coordinator, on the flute |
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| Caroline, another Korean junior teacher, and her husband, Larry singing a duet |
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| Peter singing an English solo |
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| An impromptu choir made up of teachers and a few willing students |
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| We ended with the whole group singing "Silent Night" together |
Lovely pictures and I am sure it was very enjoyable. Did you tape it? Love you
ReplyDeleteVery touching. So great that you were able to play the strings! WOW, who would have dreamed this could be so lovely. Thanks for posting. Have a memorable Christmas.
ReplyDeletewell, you know me... you know how this made me feel. so so happy you were all part of this Christmas program and sharing in the fun of music making.
ReplyDeletelove the pictures and i am waiting for the addition of you playing with the young ones.
love the pictures.. and sweaters! I miss the cold. Really.
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