It is now over 8 years since I did my one solo concert at a church in a Congregational Church in Wisconsin. I was fortunate enough to have a Kodak camera with decent audio, and filmed the whole thing. So every so often I pull out the video, or the audio clips I ripped from the video, and watch/listen. It is half appreciation and half grimace at the things I hear myself do.
The concert was titled: A Concert of Sacred Metaphors. I chose each of the pieces because of the metaphors used by the song-writer. The first half of the concert featured composer Michael Card; the second half featured classic hymns, half of which were by Fanny J. Crosby.
So today I am going to start pulling out the clips for the blog — create a sporadic mini-series. This first clip is the prelude. Title is Meditation. I don’t sing on this track, but it musically flows straight into the second track, where I do sing — but that is getting ahead of myself. You will have to wait and hear about that when I feature the next track.
I had a good pianist — she worked well with me, but she wasn’t as flexible as my favorite pianist. I got spoiled growing up and in my early adulthood by living near my sister, and having her as a built-in accompanist (as I was her built-in accompanist).
For the concert 8 years ago, the pianist did a nice job on Meditation, but I would have upped the tempo, and the push-pull of the rubato, more than she did. Never quite convinced her to my way of feeling this piece.
So here it is:
At The Rainbow 
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