Send-off Concert

Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate the beginning of our tour. As anyone in the choir can tell you, I was quite anxious about this concert, but as always they rose to the occasion!

Thank you also to those who made donations. We raised almost $1,000 and countless toys, books, and clothes for orphans. Hopefully we can get it all into our suitcases this morning.

Here are just a few clips from the concert. Unfortunately, the camera turned off after the first 15 minutes and is off-center. I will try to improve my movie-making skills on this trip.

Not bad for our first go of it, if I do say so myself!

Cantate Domino-Hassler


Magnificat in G-Stanford


Agnus Dei-Byrd


Factum est silentium-Dering

Ubuntu: Concord to Capetown!

Ubuntu, pronounced [ùbúntú], is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a traditional African concept.

"A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed." -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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