Home again, Home again.

I'm currently sitting in the Syracuse Airport with James Bass, Gabrielle Tinto, Matthew Tresler and Ben Johns. We're all reconnecting with the real world after a truly amazing first domestic tour. Yesterday, 8 of the Seraphic Folk and I worked with a number of young singers at Syracuse University.

Monday morning began with Seraphic Fire (totally hyped up on Starbucks and sugar cereal) singing for the intermediate choral conducting class at the University, followed a few hours later with a workshop with the Syracuse University Singers. It was really wonderful to see the enthusiasm of the young singers.

The high point of the day, though, was working with the kids in the Syracuse Children Choir (directed by the seemingly tireless Dr. Barbara Tagg). Gabrielle Tinto spent 8 years as a member of the SCC, and when she sang a solo with the ensemble, Dr. Tagg and the entire SF cadre were in tears. Pretty powerful stuff.

I've got a bunch of pictures from the trip that I'll be posting over the next week, so stay tuned. This was an awesome week for Seraphic Fire--I'm excited that we'll be doing this a lot over the coming seasons.

With picture...

A picture of some of Seraphic Fire at a rest station in upstate New York. Everyone is in a pretty good mood, taking into account that we had to be up at 6 am this morning. Ai!
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En route

A picture of some of Seraphic Fire at a rest station in upstate New York. Everyone is in a pretty good mood, taking into account that we had to be up at 6 am this morning. Ai!
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Nice!

We're currently on the road to Syracuse. New York and New Haven were awesome concerts. Both felt like homecomings--so many familiar faces in the audience.

Will write more when we get into Syracuse, as I think blogging while driving is illegal in new York state.
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So cool... (PDQ)

We made the event listing in Time Out New York. Totally made my day.

Now to catch my cab...

And they're off! (PDQ)

Just finished our tour send-off concert in Miami at Corpus Christi, a parish serving the incredibly poor Latin-American immigrant community of Allapatah. It was truly amazing to perform this music (Ramirez's Missa Criolla, Bermudez's Padre Nuestro) for people who speak only Spanish.

Nice to be in front of an enthusiastic home crowd before going away for a few days. We're on a plane for New York tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. It's going to be a long day, with a plane flight, a concert, and then a 2 hour drive to New Haven afterward, so I need to get some sleep so I wake up in time to catch the cab to the airport.

More soon!