Musikalisches Wochenende

It was a musical weekend!

Saturday was Stadtmusik Kandern’s Christmas concert.

Concert Program page 1 (click to magnify)

Concert Program page 2 (click to magnify)

We got there early and warmed up.

Mein Nachbar (neighbor) warms up. His son played a solo on trombone in the concert.

The concert started at 8pm with the youth band.

The Stadtmusik youth band plays

We waited outside the auditorium

My tuba colleague Heinrich waits to play

Our tubas were excited to be played.

Curly, Mo, and Larry

Daniella was nervous – it was her first concert with the Kandern band!

Smiling despite the nerves - probably because the crazy American was taking weird pictures.

The concert went very well. Several BFA people played in the concert.

David Love, Renata Bultema, David McCormick, David Grano Julie Johnson, me, Catherine Love, Katie Roberts

Three Davids in one group…. there must be some connection between the name David and playing in band!

Suzanne was putting the keyboards away in the first picture.

Half the music department played in the Stadtmusik concert!

On Sunday, Rachel and other BFA teachers performed their handbells in a Mennonite church in Basel. I wanted to hear them play (especially since Rachel is my roommate!), so I tagged along and took pictures.

The members of the church loved the "Weihnachtsglöcken" (Christmas bells)

The pastor preached from Philippians 2. I didn’t agree with everything he said (specifically when he said “Jesus hat seine Herrlichkeit im Himmel verlassen,” which means “Jesus left his glory in Heaven,”), and if you are wondering why I disagree with that,  you can read what my dad wrote about the Kenosis issue:

http://kenosis.info/index.shtml

Despite that statement, he did firmly say that Christ was fully man and fully God, and he had some good things to say.

The people at the church were very friendly and welcoming. They provided us with an excellent lunch after the service!

We enjoyed the meal together.

A fun weekend with fun music!