Tonight the Prairie Home Companion show originated from the campus of St. Olaf College and featured the exceptional musical talent for which it is noted. The orchestra and the a cappella choir were exceptionally impressive, and the harmony of the voices of the latter sent my spirit soaring. Nothing soothes and nourishes my soul and mood like the sound of beautiful voices in harmonizing song! I particularly enjoy Garrison's show when he occasionally gets the audience to join in on a hymn or old classic, the voices of hundreds of people united in song is extremely touching to me. Another very pleasing moment in tonight's show was a rendition of Sting's Fields of Gold .
Although I went to a very small high school, I was fortunate to have had a good music teacher. We were too small at the time to have a band but Mrs. Johnson developed many of our voices into what, I believe, was a reasonably good choir. We of course sang at various school functions, but she also took us to the county choral festival every Spring, and also brought some of us to Indianapolis to be part of a state-wide choir that performed at the State Teacher's Institute at the Cadle Tabernacle . I was also fortunate to have been the youngest member in a quartet in my church when I was a teen. I was the baritone, my father sang bass, and the two Wyatt brothers, Isaac and Dave sang lead and tenor. We were good enough to be asked to sing at several funerals. And, my dad and I did a magnificent rendition of the Silver Dollar song (A Man without a Woman), but the only place we performed that was behind the barn about dusk while we were waiting for the cows to come in from the pasture.
Spent the late afternoon installing a new router for our home wi-fi network. The old one quit Thursday night, but I drove for Red Cross on Friday so couldn't get a replacement until today. I should be able to waste time surfing the net a lot faster now. It wasn't a good day for Indiana football anyway, but then there seldom have been lately.