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My students had their big Spring Concert back on Friday, 4 April 2025, at 6 PM EST.  The Spring Concert is the major performance event of the Spring Semester, and represents the culminations of months of practice.  Some of the songs on the programs the kids have worked on since August 2024.  Some we added in the two or three weeks before the concert.  Either way, it takes a tremendous amount of work and practice to get polished for the concert.

This year my school revived our annual Fine Arts Festival.  Essentially, all that means is that we have the school musical and the Spring Concert in the same week, and the visual arts students display their artwork in the gym (which doubles as our auditorium).  It makes sense from a marketing standpoint, but it does make my life a bit more difficult, as I have minimal time to turn around from the school play to get setup for the concert.  As soon as the play wrapped that Thursday evening, I began resetting the stage for the concert.

Yours portly is still recuperating physically and mentally from the toll of the Fine Arts Festival, but I’ll be fine.  What of the concert itself?

Well, it was, perhaps, the best in school history.

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