I’m not a Christian and I really don’t celeberate Christmas. However, I guess I said Merry Christmas to everybody by singing Messiah last saturday. Because of the late performance permission，we put off the Messiah concert on 19th, usually the first saturday of Dec, and even change the concert hall to a small one outside Beijing instead of forbidden city concert hall. Even so, we gave the audience a lovely show in my opinion.
Messiah is a Baroque music production, more specifically, Cantata. I always have affection towards baroque music and I definitely enjoyed singing messiah this time. It is such a great work for chrous. When we singing the famous Hallelujah, all the audience stood up following british tradition. It is such a sacred moment. According to other members, it is sort of an european tradition for choirs to sing messiah during christmas time, which is why IFC does it every year. I am looking forward to singing it next year.
PS: After the concert, we had an italian dinner party, people danced and chatted and got drunk. And our director told me I am a great great asset to this choir, which makes me very proud of myself. I have enclosed the video of one of my favorite movements, For unto us a child is born, which is not our performance but I do wanna share the joy.