Music And The Spoken Word...AND ..The Piano Guys!

This morning, we headed over to the Conference Center to watch Music and the Spoken Word.  It was a special occasion because first--- THE PIANO GUYS were performing with the Choir. It was a beautiful collection of music praising God and the Savior.  I highly recommend watching it on their website.

You can see Jon Schmidt on the piano and Steven Sharp Nelson on the cello

 The Second thing that made it special was we were joined by.....

my brother, Rick and my sister-in-law, Linda.  They were in town for a wedding on Linda's side of the family and came and spent the morning with us.  The concert was a fun bonus for them as well.  They went to Church and then went and spent the afternoon with my dad who is now at a skilled nursing center in Murray, not far from his home.

And then after the broadcast, the audience got invited to watch as the choir and orchestra performed the Hallelujah chorus a few times which was taped for use in an upcoming video with the Piano Guys (who performed in the filming as well.) Look for that in the future and know--we were there.

THEN as if that wasn't enough, they dismissed the audience but then said, "Wait--we forgot that Jon Schmidt and Richard Elliot (the Tabernacle choir organist)  are going to perform a duet with piano and organ of  "Waterfall."  This was one of the Jon Schmidt pieces that Tosha learned as a teenager.  It was fun to hear it in the Conference Center as two masters played their instruments in this setting. It was a perfect end to the morning of music.

What a perfect start on a Sabbath day.