PIONEER DAY CONCERT

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2009 Last night Judy, Austin, Molly and I went to the Conference Center for the Pioneer Day Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square Concert. It was more a commemoration of the Tabernacle Choir having been on the air for eighty years. The second song they sang was Come, Come, ye Saints one hymn I always bawl through and have done so for as long as I can remember. Ever since my sweet mother got me hooked on genealogy when I was fourteen and having read and reread all my ancestors pioneer hardship stories I have felt a strong kinship to them and in my mind will always have a deep abiding love for the Mormon Pioneers. Things went downhill from there and I cried for an hour and a half. The PIONEER thing and a love of the Lord and the gospel did it last night! I am crying again as we speak. The following is the program: “Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Pioneer Day Commemoration Concert celebrating the 80th anniversary of Music & The Spoken Word. Friday, July 17, 2009 7:30 p.m. Conference Center Mack Wilberg conductor Richard Elliott, Clay Christiansen, Andrew Unsworth organists. Program The Morning Breaks….George Careless arr. By Mack Wilberg Welcome and Prayer Come, Come, Ye Saints….early Latter-day Saint hymn arr. Mack Wilberg Bound for the Promised Land….American folk hymn arr. Mack Wilberg They, the Builders of the Nation….Alfred M. Durham arr. Mack Wilberg Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz Alleluia Fanfare and Praise to the Lord, the Almighty….from Stralsund Gesangbuch, 1665 arr. Mack Wilberg Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing….from JohnWyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, 1813 arr. Mack Wilberg I Feel My Savior’s Love….K. Newell Dayley arr. Sam Cardon Cum Sancto Spiritu from Petite messe solenelle….Cioacchino Rossini I Want Jesus to Walk with Me.…African-American spiritual arr. Moses Hogan Swing Low, Sweet Chariot….African-American spiritual arr. Richard Elliot Rock-a-My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham….African-American spiritual arr. Howard A. Roberts You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel….Richard Rodgers Arr. Arthur Harris Fill the World with Love from Goodbye, Mr. Chips….Leslie Bricuss Arr. Mack Wilberg Battle Hymn of the Republic….William Steffe Arr. Peter J. Wilhousky God Be with You Till We Meet Again….William G. Tomer Arr. Mack Wilberg I LOVE THE PIONEERS!!!!

FUNNY GIRLS

MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009 The other day Corey and Stacey told me about an incident at Wal-Mart. Well, come to think about it all four of them joined in the telling. Anyway, as they were leaving the store, eight year old Bailey yelled to some customers who were just walking into the store: “Welcome to Bailey-Mart. Get your crap and get out of here!” Both she and Jayden have crackup senses of humor. On another note. Yesterday I received a phone call from my (barely) three year old granddaughter Alexa. She went on and on about this and that over the phone. She speaks as if she were several years older than she is. Afterwards, when Alexa put her mother Niki on the line I was told that Alexa had said to her, “I think I need to talk to Grandpa!”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to JAYDEN

SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2009 Today we are celebrating our grandson Jayden’s 10th birthday at our house. His actual birthday was the 10th. They celebrated with the Bingham side of the family on Friday and after diner and presents, they came here to swim. Today someone asked him what he wanted next year for his 11th birthday. His answer was, “I want to reach puberty!” We all had a good laugh at that. Stacey said that a while back he asked her when he would reach puberty. She responded, “In a couple of years.” Well he was still nine at the time. Now he is ten and in his mind a year from now, when he is eleven will be a “couple of years”. My question is, how does he even know about the subject and how much does he know. He speaks very sophisticatedly for his age. Good luck Jayden!