Thursday night Scott and I were able to hear Audra McDonald give a spectacular performance at BYU. She sang a program of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley songs with great emotion and story-telling quality. Her sound was beautiful and it was a totally amazing evening.
Then Friday night Mark and I were lucky enough to score tickets to the O. C. Tanner Gift of Music concert at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. We got to hear the incomparable James Taylor sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Utah Symphony. It was glorious and wonderful. He did a couple numbers a cappella with him and the Choir, some with the orchestra, some with all three, and a couple with his combo. It was so great! He did his big songs and it was so awesome. He got huge ovations every time he walked on and off the stage and at the end his ovation was huge and he came on for what he called the encore they practiced to be spontaneous. Then the ovation was so huge he came back on and played an actual spontaneous encore, just him and his guitar. Ohhh, it was wonderful.
So a great double evening worth of marvelous music. Yay!
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