Wow, am I good at blogging, or what? Oh, I'm supposed to write something now and then? What can I say? Life has been busy. After I got home from Phoenix, March seemed to fly by. The first half of March was busy with auditorium programs, especially due to the Kalamazoo Symphony's week of Youth Concerts for school kids.

On March 15, we had a "classical" concert of Bach music--all by about 200 elementary students. Different school groups did different things; some sang, some danced, some beat on PVC pipes cut to tuned lengths with thong sandals. What was really fun about this was that James was in it with a group of other 5th graders from his school, and they played a Bach tune on recorders. All the students wore white shirts with black pants and long white socks, with the pants rolled up to just below the knee to look like knickers, and to top it off (literally), they all wore white wigs. If I was a good, experienced blogger, or even a normal dad, I'd be showing you a picture of James all dressed up like Bach. Oh, well.

The next day, March 16, we had an afternoon choral concert. Immediately after the concert, we tore apart (okay, "dismantled") our old acoustical shell (old as in, installed in 1992). We're replacing it with one bigger and better, and of course, much more expensive. This, along with air conditioning the auditorium for the first time, is the first phase of a $7.4 million renovation that will continue through this year. So, the last three weeks have been tied up with contractors installing the new shell. They are still working on it, and it should be complete by Monday morning (4/7). Its first use will be Saturday, 4/12.

Right now I need to get to James' school conference. See you later.