Pastor Ag's bin Laden with work of late, but luckily, some friends called and said come to Ravinia.

Braving 1 inch hail, torrential downpours, floods, and more, we headed to one of the finest outdoor concert venues in the country. Ravinia is an amphitheater, (covered) and open air picnic areas located north of Chicago in Highland Park, Illinois. the area is surrounded with restaurants, chair rentals, and thousands of people with picnic baskets.

The concert?

Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a two hour spectacular concert. From 14th century Sepharic chants from Spain, to show tunes like Wizard of Oz, from Mozart's Requim to a Nigerian love chant to their god. From Dannie Boy to Battle Hymn of the Republic.

I don't much care for "the Chin", I think some aspects of Morman faith are truly amazing Mormon rules and entertaining, but scary as $^!*. Their incredible growth is due, in great part, to their incredible capacity to breed like furry, crop-destroying fuzzy-tailed long eared rodents, sometimes kept as pets.

But I have to say, watching a world class chorus, 315 voices strong, incredibly trained and musical, ALL VOLUNTEERS, and a fine orchestra of 45, WOW.

A truly class performance. What was nicer was how they brought out a seriously ailing catholic cardinal from the audience, Cardinal George, and asked him to conduct the 3d of 4 encores.



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