Happy weekend to all of you. Around here the weekend concerts have been activated after a strong season with the world congress and a well deserved rest. We are not in a moment of musical pre-tour, so again there is a lot of work to do rehearsing more than 50 choral arrangements from Monday to Friday and singing on Saturdays and Sundays, which is very necessary before performing out of town or out of the country to relax the new musical pieces (it is better that a mistake happens than to correct it here at home and work on it).

This experience we lived last weekend, we visited the imposing church in La Tahona, Caracas and we did a concert for peace, because lately with so much war we want to explore our most sublime repertoire, since it is difficult to make happy music and ignore what is happening in the world. I shared a previous post to this one to show you the architecture of the place, you can read it by clicking here.

In my musical group we are 100 people, so it is not easy to maintain harmony and synchronize when something goes wrong, in fact these days we had another concert and although it went well, the previous dress rehearsal was terrible in every way. But if there is something that unites us and makes our group work great is singing that peaceful music over and over again, and the fact of living together daily in seasons like this makes us love each other even more. I feel that our hearts beat to the same beat just as we sing to the same compas. At this weekend concert there were many smiles before and after the music and a wonderful positive energy that we transmitted to the audience.

I don't know about everyone else, but my girl and I enjoyed every moment of the weekend, especially our visit to the church. I swear it's one of the most amazing I've ever seen, and you can tell just by the facade and the height of the place. We sang very, very close to the audience and our sound is really embracing, you could see the impression on their faces, and even though all the music was quite similar for being songs of peace, people stayed until the end of our concert.

This video was recorded by one of the tenors who was sick, I saw the perfect opportunity to record a little bit of the moment and share it with you. The song is titled Even When He Is Silent, and wow, it's one of the best we have right now. The music is by Kim André Arnesen and it is said that this poem was found on a ruined wall after WWII in Cologne, Germany and was possibly written by a Jew. We all know what people suffered and surely the author was hidden for a long time in that place and that he still left a message of love for God, despite everything they lived through makes my skin crawl, because that is having faith. I share with you the lyrics that we sing in the video...