Vienna Boys Choir

What a wonderful evening! (Oder was fuer einen wunderschoener Abend!) Es war toll! I enjoyed the evening so much. The wonderful voices of the boys from Vienna. The looks and expressions on their faces. The beautiful tunes of the songs they sang. The money paid was more then worth the experience. This said, love and appreciation ideally should not be measured using quantitative terms. I have so much to write. The roller-coaster emotions that I experienced during the approximately two hour performance kept me on my toes and brought back fond memories.

The boys performed a repertoire of classical, modern, cultural and pop music in an infused way. Why do I say 'infused'? They took the traditional way of presenting choral music and add their personal touch to it. I believe that no words can describe it. One has to experience it!

I love the pieces that they performed. The ability to pick out German words further enhanced my enjoyment and appreciation.

Apart from their so perfect voices and appealing acting, one of the things that captured my heart was the fact that they performed the Chinese melody of 'Jasmine Flower", or 'Mo Li Hua". It cam during the Encore session when the audience simply kept on clapping and wishing for more. Then the conductor came back on stage with that smile on his face. He started playing the melody and it sounded seemingly terribly familiar. And the boys slipped into the melody of the song which raised the goose bumps on my arms. It simply sounded so familiar and I was trying so hard to recognise it. The Ah-Ha moment came when one of my friends whispered the title of the song into my ears. And everything simply fell into place. I could make out the words. And taking into consideration that they are simply very young boys with musical talent and with minimal exposure to the oriental culture and language, I was simply thrown off my seat byt the quality of their pronunciation. They probably only have a vague idea of what the song is about. But the fact that they even took the efforts to learn something of the host's culture simply moved me to tears. I was shocked, in a positive manner. My jaws dropped, tears welled up in my eyes. THat moment was simply too sweet and wonderful and magical. If only the world can live in peace in the name of love and appreciation of beauty.

ALright, I have to stop here for now. My eyes are too irritated by the haze that I can barely open them. Will write more soon.

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