(photos by R. Sweeney)

Last weekend we enjoyed our Christmas choir “fix” for the season: several of us attended the Texas Choral Consort annual Christmas event,  this year titled: Winter on the Wing.   

KMFA’s daytime announcer, Dianne Donovan, introduced the event on Friday evening, and our very own Phil Pollack (Technical Operations Manager) was one of the performing tenors. There were lots of familiar faces in the crowd (I went to the Sunday performance) and I recognized several friends and members of KMFA.  

As usual, there was a diverse sampling of musical treats, ranging from an early-music German piece by Buxtehude, to a contemporary piece by jazz musician Vince Guaraldi. The Director, Brent Baldwin, even participated in an early Spanish piece, “Riu, Riu, Chiu”… sample some short videos below… fun!).  

For a choral layman like me, it’s always entertaining to enjoy the relatively obscure alongside the comfortably familiar.  🙂  

~ submitted by Alison @ KMFA  🙂