TCATS #491 - Carpool +1

My Tabernacle Choir experience began with carpooling to Temple Square with Ben back in 2014. A few years later, 2017, we added Willy and Alan. Since then, our carpool has remained unchanged....until today.

Willy connected the dots that one of the new members of the Choir who joined just this year, lives in West Bountiful--and literally less than a mile from our carpool meeting spot (shout out to the restaurant Ramblin' Roads, whose parking lot we've utilized for over ten years now!). So he extended the invitation to him to join us and lo and behold, he did.

So, with a warm welcome we say hello to Dan! And from our conversations with Dan today, we learned he is a 2nd Tenor, he's originally from Arizona, he's a food research scientist specializing in formulating cookies (which recipes are then purchased by entities in the food business), and he sang in BYU Men's Chorus from 2009 to 2015. Dan is an extremely friendly guy and adds an excitement to our carpool that we're all grateful for. 

In other news, the Choir shifted early from the Tabernacle to the Conference Center today because apparently some work on the organ needed to be performed sooner than later. I'm not a big fan of singing in the Conference Center. I feel very small and disconnected from those who come to watch us. (And when I'm in row 6, add "squished" to the "very small" comment) However, it's all out of necessity to accommodate the larger number of people who visit Temple Square during the summer months.

Lastly for today, this year marks the first year since I started singing with the Choir that extra rehearsals won't outnumber regular rehearsals. It's an oddly quiet year. Normally we're always preparing for some next event outside of our weekly broadcast. But unless our leaders alter the current calendar (which is certainly a possibility), we really have nothing until our tour to Georgia/Florida in September. Even the traditional summer concert that the Choir has been putting on for years and years, has been canceled this year. 

I don't know...
It's all a bit strange...

That's it for this week!
Until next time, God be with you.