Earlier this evening I met up with family and we set off for the Young Voices concert which takes place across five nights in Birmingham, then again in Manchester, Sheffield and London, each performance made up of a brand new group of school children. Josh had been looking forward to this for weeks and was apparently very excited when he set off for school this morning. The school group had been learning several songs and medleys for weeks and along with groups from schools all over the Midlands took up half of the arena and made quite a noise both when singing and when screaming! The two hour extravaganza featured an urban dance troupe, several singer song-writers and Mic-Lowry a vocal harmony group from Liverpool. It was a brilliant spectacle! We couldn't actually see him but to know he was part of the screaming mass of children when the lights first went down was really special! There has been something in the news recently that half of school children don't know who Mozart was but hopefully these few thousand now know as one of the numbers was the Dies Irae from the Requiem. However (and purists - look away now) this one was accompanied by the rock band and renamed Rockquiem! The Dies Irae has incredible energy anyway and the rock band worked rather well! Dad asked me if I thought Mozart would have approved. I said I couldn't be sure as I didn't think the electric guitar was invented during Mozart's time but he was quite outgoing so probably would have done!
At the end I managed to get Josh's mum, my sister Viki to cough up a donation so they will get a practise session dedication over the next few days.
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