MTC Week #31 - One Person Can Change the World!

The choir has been singing a lot of Broadway/movie tunes lately, which fact Bro. Wilberg admitted, and which will be coming to an end shortly. Not that there's anything wrong with Broadway tunes. In fact, I've quite enjoyed learning them being a big Broadway musical fan myself. However, Bro. Wilberg will be getting back to a more wide variety here soon now that the Pioneer Day Concert is over and the concert at Deer Valley will be over later this week.

Today on Music & the Spoken Word, we sang a couple of showtunes, one of which was quite catchy and had some fantastic lyrics. The song was "One Person" from the musical "Dear World." This musical starred Angela Lansbury and opened in 1969 (to rather poor reviews). At any rate, our associate conductor Bro. Ryan Murphy came up with a great arrangement of this song which we sang on the broadcast today. Here are the lyrics:

One person can beat a drum
And make enough noise for ten;
One person can blow a horn
And that little boom
And that little blare
Can make a hundreds others care.

And one person can hold a torch
And light up the sky again.
And one little voice that's squeaking a song,
Can make a million voices strong.

If one person can beat a drum,
And one person can blow a horn,
If one person can hold a torch,

Then one person can change the world! 

I just love the message that one person really can make a difference. His or her small acts can affect countless others. So make those actions count!

Two other things about today.... First, I got to sit next to Joseph Ogden for the performance today and I was happy about that as the two of us sang in Concert Choir together nearly 20 years ago. Over the past few years as I watched the choir on TV (and not yet being in the choir) I remember seeing Joseph singing and thinking how great it would be to reconnect. And today that happened :)  Second, there was a really large group of Japanese students in the audience today and I kept praying they'd all have a great experience (having spent two years in Japan myself). 

This week is the Deer Valley concert which I won't be participating in. The venue only holds 250 singers so the choir staff was asking for volunteers to "sit this one out." It promises to be a great event though if any of you locals want a nice evening under the stars with great music.

Until next time...God be with you!