New Pictures

I’ve begun the process of posting pictures from my recent trip to Europe.

Music

A friend of mine just lent me a CD of a Christmas concert in which I participated during my senior year of high school. After attending my brother’s high school graduation today (congratulations, Billy!) and reminiscing on my own high school experiences, this music is evoking the most sentimentality I have had about high school in a long time.

It isn’t even really that I want to go back to high school–they were great years, but compared to my last three years of college, my high school years might as well have been my middle school years (*shudder*). It is an eerie feeling, though, to hear a solo I sang, to have the ability even three years later to sing along with my Tenor II parts in the various songs, and to be able to pick out the voices of my high school friends from our blended sound. I even sent my choir director an e-mail asking if there might be any more recordings which I could add to my musical library. Even though I do very little musically anymore except listen, I would definitely have been a much less culturally developed person than I am today without high school choir.

(Sorry for the sappiness of this post–my mood right now is just one big sigh.)

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Furthermore

Boston’s “Rock and Roll Band” is definitely the most exciting classical rock and roll song ever written/recorded/performed (click to listen, courtesy Amazon.com: Windows Media Player or Real Media Player–unfortunately, this clip ends before the coolest part of the whole song). Combine an exhilaratingly driving electric guitar line with lyrics about every boy’s childhood fantasy (becoming a part of a successful rock and roll band), and you get my Pump-Me-Up Music for the weekend.