Our good friends invited us to attend something called the "Living Christmas Tree" at First Baptist Church in Montgomery. I didn't know what one was but heard it was amazing. So, we dropped Mihaela off at her grandparents and Erin and I , Chuck and Tracy (hey, you got a mention :)), and Andy and Brandy all decided to go (Tracy and Brandy were the only ones who had attended the event before).
I found out that a "Living Christmas Tree" is a choral performance of Christmas songs where the choral risers are built to look like a christmas tree. The performers stand on the stage and it looks like a tree with little heads sticking up. There are, of course, a lot of perfomers on the lowest level of the tree and it the number of performers decrease as the tree gets taller, until there is only one member of the chorus standing on the top level, right below a star decoration. The tree was beuatifully decorated with floral pieces and lights.
The perfomance is combonation of choral pieces, insturmental pieces, and solos. The lights on the tree were synced to the music to come off and on at certain times and to display certain colors. They also created a music video that displayed on the screen during one song. The event was very well planned out and just top-notch. This really shouldn't have surprised since they have been putting on this performance for 24 years.
They singing was very, very good. They sang some classic songs like "Away in the Manger", some less traditional songs ("Light your World"), and ended with a majestic rendition of the "Hallelujah Chorus." Since FBC is the oldest church in Montgomery (founded around the early 1820s) it is a classic Baptist church with only piano and organ accompianment. (They did do thier first song with an acoustic guitar and two soloist that ended the song in a tremendous duet). The organ/piano combonation gave the entire event an air of elegance, grace, and solemenity. My favorite song they did was "Angus Dei."
Anyway, it was a lot of fun and a very uplifting and encouraging performance.
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