Last week Doug didn’t have to take any medication except if he needed something for pain. He felt the best he has felt in months as our weekend activity will indicate.
This weekend was the first Doug and I have worshiped together in a church building in four months. Thanks to radio and the Internet we’ve experienced long-distant church worship here at home by listening to the church service of our home church on radio and by tuning in to services streamed over the Internet. During the in-church worship this weekend Doug introduced the new senior pastor of one of the Fort Worth churches. In the afternoon we visited with friends and stopped to spend time with my Mom.
It also seemed to me that this weekend Doug made up for much of what he’d not done around our home. He didn’t even take a nap Sunday before friends picked us up for our evening out.
What a treat to be together at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas regarded as one of the premier music halls in the nation. The architectural design and acoustics of the Meyerson are spectacular. If you have never been there in person it is worth your time to enlarge the prints at http://www.pcfandp.com/a/p/8103/s.html to view this amazing structure for yourself.
The Meyerson is home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Turtle Creek Chorale and Dallas Wind Symphony. Sunday night Southwestern Adventist University provided university, high school, and academy students the opportunity to perform in this world-class concert hall. Three hundred young people filled the hall with band, woodwind, festival guitar and choir music. Doug and I got to hold hands and lap up the eye candy and the marvelous music which was performed flawlessly.
The program notes indicate that “A Night at the Meyerson” has been a tradition of Southwestern Adventist University’s Fine Arts Department for fifteen years. According to the University’s President the goal of having the evening is “to inspire young musicians and to provide scholarships and musical equipment for our music department.”
In addition to preparing their own university students, the dedicated music faculty schedule trips to the 16 other schools throughout the school year to prepare students for the yearly music festival in February.
This year as well as accompanying the choirs on the piano, Professor John Boyd opened the pipes of the majestic organ in a concert solo as well as really adding intensity to a couple of the band and choir numbers. Conductors Rudyard Dennis, Henry Welch, and David R. Anavitarte were as professional as any of the regulars that perform at the Meyerson. The behavior of the students was to our eyes impeccable.
Our date was perfect in every way!
~Carole
